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Date Issued

Public and Indian Housing

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2023-CH-0001-001-D

    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.

2022-LA-0004 | September 30, 2022

Geospatial Data Act of 2018, Fiscal Year 2022

Policy Development & Research

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2022-LA-0004-001-A

    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.

Chief Information Officer

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2022-OE-0001-05

    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).

Housing

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2022-FO-0007-001-B

    Use the fraud risk inventory to enhance program-specific fraud risk assessments for the PBRA program.

Community Planning and Development

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2022-LA-0003-001-A

    Consider allowing grantees additional time to spend the program funding on eligible activities to meet the 80 percent spending deadline.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2022-LA-0003-001-B

    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.

Community Planning and Development

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2022-AT-1002-001-A
    $2,588,362
    Questioned 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.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2022-AT-1002-001-B

    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.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2022-AT-1002-001-C

    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.

Community Planning and Development

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2022-LA-0002-001-A

    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.

Community Planning and Development

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2022-FO-0005-003-A

    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.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2022-FO-0005-003-B

    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.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2022-FO-0005-003-C

    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.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2022-FO-0005-003-D

    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

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2022-FO-0005-001-B

    Consult with OMB on the appropriate reporting for the untested portions of the payment cycle (such as reporting as unknown) and report accordingly.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2022-FO-0005-001-C

    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.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2022-FO-0005-004-A

    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.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2022-FO-0005-004-B

    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.

Community Planning and Development

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2022-AT-1001-001-A
    $107,036
    Questioned 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.

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    Status
      Open
      Closed
    2022-AT-1001-001-B

    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.