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…

Develop and document internal procedures to ensure the OCFO’s responsibilities specified within the new or updated grant accrual validation policy are addressed.

Develop and implement procedures to ensure that planning for the CPD grant accrual validation is done early in the accounting cycle to allow for: • Sufficient resources to be available to perform the validation of the prior year grant accrual. • Validation efforts to start earlier to allow for follow-up on non-responsive grantees or grantees that provided incomplete information. • Materiality risk to be considered when planning and evaluating…

Revise CPD Validation Review Instructions to specify documentation requirements similar to those provided to the grantee and specify verification of dates for when the costs were incurred.

Develop and document internal procedures to ensure that they will address the Program Office’s responsibilities within the departmental grant accrual validation policy.

Reimburse its Housing Choice Voucher Program $12,460 from non-Federal funds for the ineligible disbursements.

Transfer $3,801 from its Housing Choice Voucher Program account to its Family Self-Sufficiency account for the underfunded escrows.

Reimburse one participant, $547 from its Family Self-Sufficiency program for the underpaid graduation payment.

Implement procedures and controls to ensure that documentation required by HUD and the Authority’s own action plan is correctly completed, documented, and updated.

Ensure that its staff is appropriately trained and familiar with HUD’s requirements and its program action plan regarding the administration of its program to ensure that (1) participants’ individual training and services plans are complete and contain appropriate goals to assist the family in achieving self-sufficiency, (2) participants are notified of their escrow account balances at least annually, and (3) contracts of participation are…

Ensure that its newly created policies and procedures include a process for ensuring that (1) escrow balances are correctly calculated and disbursed, (2) escrow accounts and disbursements are fully supported, and (3) forfeited escrow account funds are returned to the Housing Choice Voucher Program as required.

Determine the amount of the $445,122 in coordinator grant funds that were appropriately earned by the Authority for meeting requirements and paid to the coordinators while performing duties of the Family Self-Sufficiency program. The funds that are determined to be unearned should be reimbursed to HUD from non-Federal funds.

Reimburse its program $20,450 from non-Federal funds ($10,331 $10,119 in associated administrative fees) for the overpayment of housing assistance due to inappropriate calculations of housing assistance.

Reimburse the appropriate households $3,590 from program funds for the underpayment of housing assistance due to inappropriate calculations.

Support or reimburse its program $18,638 from non-Federal funds for the unsupported payments of housing assistance cited in this finding.

Enter into repayment agreements to pursue collection from the applicable households or reimburse its program $6,367 from non-Federal funds for the overpayment of housing assistance due to unreported or underreported income

Implement adequate procedures and controls to ensure that housing assistance payments are appropriately calculated and supported and that repayment agreements are created to recover overpaid housing assistance when unreported income is discovered during the examination process to ensure that $453,999 ($351,060 $102,939) in program funds is appropriately used for future payments.

Reimburse its program $3,117 from non-Federal funds for the ineligible program expenditures.

Support or reimburse its program $4,070 from non-Federal funds for the unsupported program expenditures.

Reimburse $9,170 from non-Federal funds to the owners of the Project-Based Voucher developments it inappropriately charged for the normal cost of doing business to administer the Project-Based Voucher contracts.