The Housing Authority of the City of New Haven, CT, Made Ineligible Housing Assistance Payments From Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Develop and implement internal control procedures to ensure that housing assistance funds appropriated for 1 calendar year are not used to make retroactive housing assistance payments for prior years.
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The Housing Authority of the City of New Haven, CT, Made Ineligible Housing Assistance Payments From Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Repay the Housing Choice Voucher program from non-Federal funds the $32,682 in ineligible housing assistance overpayments made due to program errors.
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The Housing Authority of the City of New Haven, CT, Made Ineligible Housing Assistance Payments From Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Develop and implement internal control procedures to ensure that housing assistance payments resulting from errors of Authority officials are covered by the Authority’s administrative fees.
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The Housing Authority of the City of New Haven, CT, Made Ineligible Housing Assistance Payments From Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Develop and implement internal control procedures to ensure that housing assistance payments are not made to owners without a properly executed lease and housing assistance payments contract.
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The Housing Authority of the City of New Haven, CT, Made Ineligible Housing Assistance Payments From Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Develop and implement internal controls to ensure that housing assistance payments discontinue once a program participant is absorbed into another public housing agency’s program or leaves the program.
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The Housing Authority of the City of New Haven, CT, Made Ineligible Housing Assistance Payments From Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Provide support showing that the repayment of housing assistance overpayments found by the Authority were received.
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The Housing Authority of the City of North Chicago, North Chicago, IL, Did Not Always Comply With HUD's Requirements and Its Own Policies Regarding the Administration of Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Certify, along with the owners, that the applicable housing quality standards violations have been corrected for the 78 units cited in this finding.
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The Housing Authority of the City of North Chicago, North Chicago, IL, Did Not Always Comply With HUD's Requirements and Its Own Policies Regarding the Administration of Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Reimburse its program $153,222 from non-Federal funds for the housing assistance paid for the 50 units that materially failed to meet HUD’s housing quality standards and its own requirements.
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The Housing Authority of the City of North Chicago, North Chicago, IL, Did Not Always Comply With HUD's Requirements and Its Own Policies Regarding the Administration of Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Reimburse its program $15,796 from non-Federal funds for administrative fees earned for the 50 units that materially failed to meet HUD’s housing quality standards and its own requirements.
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The Housing Authority of the City of North Chicago, North Chicago, IL, Did Not Always Comply With HUD's Requirements and Its Own Policies Regarding the Administration of Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Ensure that its staff is properly trained and familiar with HUD’s and its own requirements regarding housing quality standards inspections.
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The Housing Authority of the City of North Chicago, North Chicago, IL, Did Not Always Comply With HUD's Requirements and Its Own Policies Regarding the Administration of Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Implement adequate procedures and controls to ensure that all units meet HUD’s housing quality standards and its own requirements to prevent $1,236,000 in program funds from being spent on units that do not comply with HUD’s requirements over the next year. The procedures should include but not Read More
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The Housing Authority of the City of North Chicago, North Chicago, IL, Did Not Always Comply With HUD's Requirements and Its Own Policies Regarding the Administration of Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Support or reimburse its program $93,651 from non-Federal funds for the missing required eligibility documentation.
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The Housing Authority of the City of North Chicago, North Chicago, IL, Did Not Always Comply With HUD's Requirements and Its Own Policies Regarding the Administration of Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Reimburse its program $76 from non-Federal funds for the overpayment of housing assistance due to inappropriate calculations of housing assistance.
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The Housing Authority of the City of North Chicago, North Chicago, IL, Did Not Always Comply With HUD's Requirements and Its Own Policies Regarding the Administration of Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Reimburse the appropriate households $2,193 from program funds for the underpayment of housing assistance due to inappropriate calculations.
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The Housing Authority of the City of North Chicago, North Chicago, IL, Did Not Always Comply With HUD's Requirements and Its Own Policies Regarding the Administration of Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Reimburse its program $9,870 ($7,663 $2,207) from non-Federal funds for the administrative fees it inappropriately earned for the missing required eligibility documentation and inappropriate calculations of housing assistance.
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The Housing Authority of the City of North Chicago, North Chicago, IL, Did Not Always Comply With HUD's Requirements and Its Own Policies Regarding the Administration of Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Implement adequate procedures and controls to ensure that the required documentation to support household eligibility is obtained and maintained and housing assistance payments are appropriately calculated.
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The Housing Authority of the City of North Chicago, North Chicago, IL, Did Not Always Comply With HUD's Requirements and Its Own Policies Regarding the Administration of Its Housing Choice Voucher Program
Review the utility allowance schedules to ensure that all applicable utilities are provided to the households and that the utility allowances are based on the lower of the voucher size or unit size in accordance with HUD’s requirements.
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The Housing Authority of the City of Springfield, MA, Did Not Always Comply With Procurement and Contract Administration Requirements
Support that $916,132 spent on contracts was fair and reasonable in accordance with Federal requirements or repay the Operating Fund or Capital Fund program from non-Federal funds any amount that cannot be supported.
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The Housing Authority of the City of Springfield, MA, Did Not Always Comply With Procurement and Contract Administration Requirements
Support that $408,968 in funds not yet spent on contracts would be fair and reasonable or reallocate the funds to ensure that they will be put to their intended use.
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The Housing Authority of the City of Springfield, MA, Did Not Always Comply With Procurement and Contract Administration Requirements
Reprocure any contracts for which cost reasonableness cannot be supported and contracts were not properly awarded to ensure compliance with HUD requirements.
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