The Crisfield Housing Authority, Crisfield, MD, Did Not Properly Administer Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Develop and implement procedures and controls to ensure that housing assistance and utility allowance payments are correctly calculated, including the use of the Enterprise Income Verification system to verify household income, and that they are adequately supported.
The Crisfield Housing Authority, Crisfield, MD, Did Not Properly Administer Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Correct the errors in the files identified in this report.
The Crisfield Housing Authority, Crisfield, MD, Did Not Properly Administer Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Develop and implement procedures and controls to ensure that required eligibility documentation is obtained and maintained to support households’ selection from its waiting list and admission to and continued assistance on the program.
The Crisfield Housing Authority, Crisfield, MD, Did Not Properly Administer Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Develop and implement controls to ensure that employees comply with its computer, internet, and email use policy and use only official business email accounts to transmit confidential information.
The Crisfield Housing Authority, Crisfield, MD, Did Not Properly Administer Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Develop and implement controls to ensure that its Section 8 coordinator is adequately trained and supervised to ensure that the program operates in accordance with requirements.
The Crisfield Housing Authority, Crisfield, MD, Did Not Properly Administer Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Follow its administrative plan to ensure that program requirements are met.
The Crisfield Housing Authority, Crisfield, MD, Did Not Properly Administer Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Provide technical assistance to the Authority to ensure that it properly administers its program and that program regulations are met.
The Crisfield Housing Authority, Crisfield, MD, Did Not Properly Administer Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Evaluate the Authority’s email system and its computer, internet, and email use policy to determine whether they provide sufficient safeguards for transmitting and handling confidential information.
The Crisfield Housing Authority, Crisfield, MD, Did Not Properly Administer Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Reimburse its program $119,023 from non-Federal funds for the ineligible housing assistance payments it made due to the conflict-of-interest situation identified by the audit and any additional ineligible housing assistance payments it made outside our review period.
The Crisfield Housing Authority, Crisfield, MD, Did Not Properly Administer Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Develop and implement controls to prevent and detect conflict-of-interest situations.
The Crisfield Housing Authority, Crisfield, MD, Did Not Properly Administer Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Evaluate the apparent conflict-of-interest situation in this report and pursue administrative sanctions if warranted.
The Kansas City, MO, Health Department Did Not Spend Funds in Accordance With HUD Requirements
Repay the U.S. Treasury $19,173 spent on ineligible assistance from non-Federal funds.
The Kansas City, MO, Health Department Did Not Spend Funds in Accordance With HUD Requirements
Complete a cost breakdown to support the $10,731 spent on a rental property, which included assistance to an ineligible unit, and repay the ineligible assistance to the U.S. Treasury from non-Federal funds.
The Kansas City, MO, Health Department Did Not Spend Funds in Accordance With HUD Requirements
Recalculate annual income for participants assisted with the 2014 lead hazard control grant to support the $1,803,705 spent. For any assistance the Health Department cannot support with complete income calculations, it should repay the U.S. Treasury from non-Federal funds, less any amount repaid as a result of recommendations 1B and 2A.
The Kansas City, MO, Health Department Did Not Spend Funds in Accordance With HUD Requirements
Develop and implement policies and procedures that clarify the definition of annual income to be used, calculation components, and the documentation required to calculate income.
The Kansas City, MO, Health Department Did Not Spend Funds in Accordance With HUD Requirements
Develop and implement procedures for quality control reviews to ensure that annual income is properly calculated.
The Kansas City, MO, Health Department Did Not Spend Funds in Accordance With HUD Requirements
Provide training on HUD’s income requirements to employees responsible for calculating income.
The Kansas City, MO, Health Department Did Not Spend Funds in Accordance With HUD Requirements
Provide support showing the $79,738 spent on window replacement qualified or repay the U.S. Treasury from non-Federal funds.
The Kansas City, MO, Health Department Did Not Spend Funds in Accordance With HUD Requirements
Develop and implement policies and procedures to ensure that all windows replaced meet lead hazard qualifications.
The Kansas City, MO, Health Department Did Not Spend Funds in Accordance With HUD Requirements
Develop and implement quality control procedures to ensure that all bid specifications are reviewed for qualified items based on the risk assessment results.