We recommend that the General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing require the Real Estate Assessment Center in coordination with the Office of Field Operations to implement adequate procedures and controls to ensure that public housing agencies appropriately identify and control lead-based paint and eliminate lead-based paint hazards in public housing.
2023-CH-0001 | October 11, 2022
HUD Lacked Adequate Oversight of Lead-Based Paint Hazard Remediation in Public Housing
Public and Indian Housing
- Status2023-CH-0001-001-DOpenClosed
2022-LA-0004 | September 30, 2022
Geospatial Data Act of 2018, Fiscal Year 2022
Policy Development & Research
- Status2022-LA-0004-001-AOpenClosed
Ensure there are resources available for further development of geocoding services that fulfill HUD’s responsibilities stated in 43 U.S.C. § 2808(a)(5) and 43 U.S.C. § 2808(a)(12) through the reactivation of the lapsed Geocode Service Center contract.
2022-OE-0001 | September 30, 2022
HUD FY 2022 Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) Evaluation Report
Chief Information Officer
- Status2022-OE-0001-05OpenClosed
HUD OCIO should ensure that system owners and information system security officers consistently test their ISCPs and upload the test results to CSAM in accordance with HUD’s defined ISCP testing policy (derived from metric 63).
2022-FO-0007 | September 29, 2022
Fraud Risk Inventory for the Tenant- and Project-Based Rental Assistance, HOME, and Operating Fund Programs’ CARES and ARP Act Funds
Housing
- Status2022-FO-0007-001-BOpenClosed
Use the fraud risk inventory to enhance program-specific fraud risk assessments for the PBRA program.
2022-LA-0003 | September 28, 2022
Community Development Block Grant CARES Act Implementation Challenges
Community Planning and Development
- Status2022-LA-0003-001-AOpenClosed
Consider allowing grantees additional time to spend the program funding on eligible activities to meet the 80 percent spending deadline.
- Status2022-LA-0003-001-BOpenClosed
Consider streamlining program requirements to help grantees promptly use program funds to assist those impacted by the pandemic or for activities that prepare for, prevent, or respond to the coronavirus.
2022-AT-1002 | September 16, 2022
The State of North Carolina Generally Had Capacity and Mostly Followed Disbursement Requirements, but Its Procurement Process Needs Improvement
Community Planning and Development
- Status2022-AT-1002-001-AOpenClosed$2,588,362Questioned Costs
Recommendations with questioned costs identify costs: (A) resulting from an alleged violation of a law, regulation, contract, grant, or other document or agreement governing the use of Federal funds; (B) that are not supported by adequate documentation (also known as an unsupported cost); or (C) that appear unnecessary or unreasonable.
Provide adequate documentation to support that the $2,588,362 in CDBG-DR funds for three unsupported project and program management services expenditures cited in this report was spent for supported, necessary, and reasonable costs. Any amount for which adequate support cannot be provided should be repaid from non-Federal funds.
- Status2022-AT-1002-001-BOpenClosed
Update its procurement policy to clearly define the process, which includes timing and the procurement types, for conducting an independent cost estimate and a price analysis.
- Status2022-AT-1002-001-COpenClosed
Provide training to State staff to ensure that it understands and follows (1) requirements to maintain adequate documentation to support that program disbursements are eligible and reasonable and (2) procurement requirements, including independent cost estimates, cost analyses, proposal scoring, and the timely checking of the SAM data for contractors’ eligibility.
2022-LA-0002 | August 17, 2022
Emergency Solutions Grants CARES Act Implementation Challenges
Community Planning and Development
- Status2022-LA-0002-001-AOpenClosed
Consider grant recipients’ feedback on challenges with (1) capacity, (2) multiple other sources of funding, and (3) subrecipient monitoring as part of CPD’s risk assessments.
2022-FO-0005 | June 27, 2022
HUD Compliance with the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019
Community Planning and Development
- Status2022-FO-0005-003-AOpenClosed
Collaborate with the Deputy Chief Financial Officer to work with grantees in identifying where improper and unknown payments could occur in the CPD-HIM program throughout the payment cycle, to include the risks associated with subgrantee billing, and document this analysis.
- Status2022-FO-0005-003-BOpenClosed
Collaborate with the Deputy Chief Financial Officer and use the analysis developed in 3A to ensure that HUD’s improper and unknown payment testing procedures are (1) designed to test the full payment cycle and (2) include the review of documentation that supports that final beneficiaries were eligible, goods and services were received, and payments went to the correct final beneficiaries and were for the correct amount.
- Status2022-FO-0005-003-COpenClosed
Work with the Office of Community Planning and Development’s Chief Risk Officer and grantees to better identify the risks of improper and unknown payments throughout the payment cycle, to include the risks associated with grantees and subgrantees, and consider these risks when performing the CDBG and Homeless Assistance Grant risk assessments.
- Status2022-FO-0005-003-DOpenClosed
Work with the Deputy Chief Financial Officer to develop and design a process to ensure that each attribute evaluated during the PIIA risk assessment is evaluated at all levels of the full payment cycle.
Chief Financial Officer
- Status2022-FO-0005-001-BOpenClosed
Consult with OMB on the appropriate reporting for the untested portions of the payment cycle (such as reporting as unknown) and report accordingly.
- Status2022-FO-0005-001-COpenClosed
Implement a procedure, which ensures that future improper and unknown payment testing that does not test the full payment cycle is reported in accordance with OMB’s guidance.
- Status2022-FO-0005-004-AOpenClosed
Coordinate with OMB to ensure that all of HUD’s data posted on OMB’s PaymentAccuracy.gov are accurate, including data before fiscal year 2021.
- Status2022-FO-0005-004-BOpenClosed
Update its procedures to include verifying all HUD data on PaymentAccuracy.gov immediately after the data are published on the public website to ensure that all data are accurate and if not, coordinate any corrections with OMB.
2022-AT-1001 | March 30, 2022
The State of Florida Administered Its Housing Repair and Replacement Program Effectively but Not Always in a Cost-Efficient and Prudent Manner for the Projects and Activity Delivery Costs Reviewed
Community Planning and Development
- Status2022-AT-1001-001-AOpenClosed$107,036Questioned Costs
Recommendations with questioned costs identify costs: (A) resulting from an alleged violation of a law, regulation, contract, grant, or other document or agreement governing the use of Federal funds; (B) that are not supported by adequate documentation (also known as an unsupported cost); or (C) that appear unnecessary or unreasonable.
Provide support for the reimbursement to its housing program of $107,036 from non-Federal funds if justification cannot be provided to support that the overhead and profit amounts paid to the contractors were reasonable.
- Status2022-AT-1001-001-BOpenClosed
Perform a review of the remaining 453 contracts and any additional contracts issued under the old invitations to bid to ensure that overhead and profit amounts charged by contractors were reasonable. The State should either provide justification or support for the reimbursements to its housing program from non-Federal funds for the unsupported amounts.