Ensure privacy awareness training is provided to all contractor and third party personnel
2018-OE-0001 | September 13, 2018
HUD Privacy Program Evaluation Report
Office of Administration
- Status2018-OE-0001-15OpenClosed
- Status2018-OE-0001-16OpenClosed
Provide personnel tasked with handling Privacy Act requests with recurring training on Privacy Act exceptions
- Status2018-OE-0001-17OpenClosed
Establish documentation procedures for accounting of disclosures made under the Privacy Act, as required by 5 USC 552a(c)
- Status2018-OE-0001-18OpenClosed
Establish an annual computer matching activity reporting process to meet the requirements of OMB Circular A-108
- Status2018-OE-0001-19OpenClosed
Determine if general support system privacy threshold assessments or privacy impact assessments should be completed; if not, document the rationale
- Status2018-OE-0001-20OpenClosed
Develop the technical capability to identify, inventory, and monitor the existence of PII within the HUD environment
- Status2018-OE-0001-21OpenClosed
Develop and implement a process to inventory all agency PII holdings not less than annually.
- Status2018-OE-0001-22OpenClosed
Renew the PII minimization effort, to include a prioritization by the SAOP of specific minimization initiatives
- Status2018-OE-0001-23OpenClosed
Require all system owners to review the records retention practices for each information system and take any corrective actions necessary to ensure adherence to the applicable records retention schedule
- Status2018-OE-0001-24OpenClosed
A. Issue a clean desk policy prohibiting unattended and unsecured sensitive data in workplaces. B. Implement procedures to enforce the clean desk policy.
2018-PH-0002 | September 10, 2018
HUD Did Not Provide Adequate Oversight of Its Family Self-Sufficiency Program
Public and Indian Housing
- Status2018-PH-0002-001-AOpenClosed$7,779,450Questioned 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.
Require the 12 grantees to correct their action plans to ensure that they comply with program requirements and submit the corrected plans to HUD for review or require the grantees to repay HUD from non-Federal funds for any amount of the $7,779,450 they received that they cannot support.
- Status2018-PH-0002-001-BOpenClosed$1,520Questioned 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.
Require the Housing Authority of Brevard County to repay $1,520 in ineligible escrow funds to HUD from non-Federal funds for the program participant that exceeded allowable contract terms of the FSS program.
- Status2018-PH-0002-001-COpenClosed
Monitor the grantees’ efforts to improve the accuracy and completeness of the PIC program data to ensure that program outcomes reported to Congress are accurately supported.
- Status2018-PH-0002-001-DOpenClosed
Develop and implement a plan to monitor grantee FSS programs, including to ensure that escrow accounts are calculated correctly.
- Status2018-PH-0002-001-EOpenClosed
Develop and implement policies and procedures to ensure that documentation is maintained by grantees to support program participants’ contractual agreements.
2018-DE-1001 | September 06, 2018
Meeker Housing Authority, Meeker, CO, Improperly Used Project Operating Funds for Its 221(d)(3) Multifamily Housing Insurance Program
Housing
- Status2018-DE-1001-001-AOpenClosed
Put all project bank accounts in the name of the project.
- Status2018-DE-1001-001-BOpenClosed
Separate all owner bank accounts from the project’s bank accounts.
- Status2018-DE-1001-001-COpenClosed
Develop and implement controls over the distinction between project funds and owner funds. These controls should include policies related to when the owner is allowed to take project funds owed to the owner.
- Status2018-DE-1001-001-DOpenClosed
Take HUD-approved training related to operating and maintaining a multifamily project.
- Status2018-DE-1001-002-AOpenClosed$142,805Questioned 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.
Repay the project’s operating account from nonproject funds for the $142,805 spent on ineligible expenses.