HUD and FHAP Agencies Can Better Document Decisions Not to Investigate Fair Housing Complaints
Develop a process to oversee housing discrimination allegations that FHAP agencies close and do not submit to HUD for dual-filing to ensure that the closure and jurisdictional determinations are consistent with the Fair Housing Act. To help address this recommendation, HUD should consider requiring FHAP agencies to enter data on closed inquiries in HEMS and make updates to FHAP agreements as necessary.
Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity's Oversight of State and Local Fair Housing Enforcement Agencies
Provide more detailed guidance to HUD reviewers on benchmarks for each performance standard.
Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity's Oversight of State and Local Fair Housing Enforcement Agencies
Update the PAR template to ensure that HUD reviewers include required information.
Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity's Oversight of State and Local Fair Housing Enforcement Agencies
Assess HUD reviewers’ skills and readiness to determine the appropriate frequency of training.
Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity's Oversight of State and Local Fair Housing Enforcement Agencies
Provide more detailed guidance to HUD reviewers and FHEO regional directors on when and under what circumstances to recommend or issue a PIP.
Transmittal of Independent Public Accountant's Audit Report on the Federal Housing Administration's Fiscal Years 2022 and 2021 Financial Statements
Establish change management and periodic reviews of control activities to ensure regulatory changes, such as Fiscal Service updates to the USSGL, are identified, analyzed, and assessed for potential needed changes to FHA’s established processes.
Transmittal of Independent Public Accountant's Audit Report on the Federal Housing Administration's Fiscal Years 2022 and 2021 Financial Statements
Establish and ensure appropriate and effective communication protocols between OFAR, FHA, and HUD’s Office of Budget to ensure (1) funding type is clearly indicated within the SF 132 and clear communications are made in differentiating between definite and indefinite borrowing authority, (2) legislative changes in FHA’s borrowing authority are vetted with OMB to ensure appropriate treatment, and (3) – draft SF-133s are reviewed and vetted with…
Transmittal of Independent Public Accountant's Audit Report on the Federal Housing Administration's Fiscal Years 2022 and 2021 Financial Statements
Establish internal control procedures around the borrowings process to include verifying sufficient borrowing authority exists within the SF 132, prior to executing the borrowing request. Such verification should also be included as part of the borrowing review and approval controls.
Transmittal of Independent Public Accountant's Audit Report on the Federal Housing Administration's Fiscal Years 2022 and 2021 Financial Statements
Receive a final opinion from HUD’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer’s Appropriation Law Division on whether FHA was in violation of the Antideficiency Act.
Transmittal of Independent Public Accountant's Audit Report on the Federal Housing Administration's Fiscal Years 2022 and 2021 Financial Statements
Implement procedures to enhance the review of all journal entries recorded in the general ledger by requiring a two-level review that includes the review of source documents for the journal entry (for example, the OMB approved SF 132).
Transmittal of Independent Public Accountant's Audit Report on the Federal Housing Administration's Fiscal Years 2022 and 2021 Financial Statements
Strengthen controls over the preparation of the SF 132 to the SF 133 reconciliation by preparing such reconciliations (1) first, with the unadjusted trial balance and later, with the adjusted trial balance and (2) at the fund level, with detailed documentation of differences,
and with sufficient detailed explanations that describe the general ledger impact of the differences.
Transmittal of Independent Public Accountant's Audit Report on the Federal Housing Administration's Fiscal Years 2022 and 2021 Financial Statements
Perform a thorough review of the SF 132 to SF 133 reconciliations and work with Financial Analysis and Controls Division and other divisions and groups to resolve material reconciling items timely.
Transmittal of Independent Public Accountant's Audit Report on the Federal Housing Administration's Fiscal Years 2022 and 2021 Financial Statements
Coordinate with the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Single Family Housing and HUD’s Office of the Chief Procurement Office (OCPO) in developing effective communication channels between FHA’s NSC and OFAR, and in developing effective monitoring controls to ensure the timely identification and remediation of issues, such as unprocessed documentation and inaccurate records, which may impact the balances reported within FHA’s financial statements.
Transmittal of Independent Public Accountant's Audit Report on the Federal Housing Administration's Fiscal Years 2022 and 2021 Financial Statements
Develop effective detective controls to ensure HECM loan receivables are accurate and complete, exist, and FHA appropriately holds or controls the rights to any collateral property in connection with the receivable.
Transmittal of Independent Public Accountant's Audit Report on the Federal Housing Administration's Fiscal Years 2022 and 2021 Financial Statements
Develop and implement procedures to review the reasonableness of the amounts included in the Missing Documents Report before recording the reclassification entry. Include steps to be followed if the amounts in the report do not appear reasonable.
Transmittal of Independent Public Accountant's Audit Report on the Federal Housing Administration's Fiscal Years 2022 and 2021 Financial Statements
Coordinate with the NSC to take all the actions necessary required by HUD Handbook 4000.1 to ensure that FHA’s interests are protected with respect to the partial claims for which FHA has not received the original promissory note and recorded mortgage.
Transmittal of Independent Public Accountant's Audit Report on the Federal Housing Administration's Fiscal Years 2022 and 2021 Financial Statements
Coordinate with the NSC to conduct a detailed review of the HECM assigned notes portfolio to identify and record all default events that have occurred to date and initiate collection proceedings in accordance with the applicable HUD Handbooks.
Transmittal of Independent Public Accountant's Audit Report on the Federal Housing Administration's Fiscal Years 2022 and 2021 Financial Statements
Coordinate with the NSC and the OCPO to determine whether the information technology system could be enhanced to track the annual payment of state property taxes for the HECM portfolio.
Transmittal of Independent Public Accountant's Audit Report on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Fiscal Years 2022 and 2021 Financial Statements
Develop and issue a departmental grant accrual validation policy or update the existing grant accrual policy to include the validation process. The policy should include 1) specific control activities over the grant accrual validation and outline all of the specific roles and responsibilities; 2) a periodic review of the grant accrual validation to evaluate and reassess its continued relevance and control effectiveness, and ensure any changes…
Transmittal of Independent Public Accountant's Audit Report on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Fiscal Years 2022 and 2021 Financial Statements
Develop and document internal procedures to ensure the OCFO’s responsibilities specified within the new or updated grant accrual validation policy are addressed.