HUD Can Improve Its Oversight of the Physical Condition of Public Housing Developments
Develop and implement training for field offices that addresses reviewing or following up with PHAs about the correction of life-threatening and non-life-threatening deficiencies and how (1) to review physical inspection reports to effectively ensure that PHAs correct physical deficiencies, (2) Read More
Open Recommendation
HUD Can Improve Its Oversight of the Physical Condition of Public Housing Developments
Implement a system to track field office inspection review activities and create a repository for the support documentation collected to verify the correction of life-threatening deficiencies.
Corrective Action Taken
HUD’s Office of Field Operations (OFO) had created a quality assurance Read More
Open Recommendation
HUD Can Improve Its Oversight of the Physical Condition of Public Housing Developments
We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary for REAC determine whether PHAs are required to perform annual inspections on 100 percent of their public housing units annually and issue clarifying guidance to all PHAs.
Open Recommendation
HUD Can Improve Its Oversight of the Physical Condition of Public Housing Developments
If REAC determines that 100 percent annual self-inspections are required, establish specific guidance to address the number of units and frequency of PHA self-inspections. If not required, REAC should evaluate whether HUD’s rationale for inspecting a statistical sample rather than 100 percent of Read More
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HUD Can Improve Its Oversight of the Physical Condition of Public Housing Developments
Develop and implement a nationwide protocol for field offices, describing how PHA self-inspections should be reviewed, based on REAC's determination of the number and frequency of PHA self-inspections.
Status
The Office of Field Operations will develop and implement a nationwide protocol Read More
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HUD Can Improve Oversight of Its Temporary Endorsement Policy for Loans in COVID-19 Forbearance
Require lenders to execute indemnification agreements covering a period of at least 5 years for each of the 20 loans for which the lenders did not comply with the temporary endorsement policy and related instructions, including loans for which the lenders did not execute an agreement when required Read More
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HUD Can Improve Oversight of Its Temporary Endorsement Policy for Loans in COVID-19 Forbearance
Obtain guidance from the Office of General Counsel regarding the implications of allowing lenders to retroactively apply forbearance in cases in which the borrower requests forbearance after the lender submits the loan for endorsement to ensure that it consistently handles such cases.
Open Recommendation
HUD Can Improve Oversight of Its Temporary Endorsement Policy for Loans in COVID-19 Forbearance
Request and analyze data from lenders for the 3,024 loans at risk of noncompliance to identify loans that should have been subject to the temporary endorsement policy or were otherwise ineligible for insurance. The data requested should include but not be limited to the dates when the borrower Read More
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HUD Can Improve Oversight of Its Temporary Endorsement Policy for Loans in COVID-19 Forbearance
For any of the 3,024 loans found to be subject to the temporary policy or otherwise ineligible for insurance, require the lenders to execute indemnification agreements covering a period of at least 5 years or reimburse HUD for any claims to put up to $26,840,071 to better use by protecting HUD Read More
Open Recommendation
HUD Can Improve Oversight of Its Temporary Endorsement Policy for Loans in COVID-19 Forbearance
Update data in HUD’s system for the three cases in which the lender incorrectly reported the loans as in COVID-19 forbearance at the time of endorsement to ensure that accurate data are maintained.
Open Recommendation
HUD Can Improve Oversight of Its Temporary Endorsement Policy for Loans in COVID-19 Forbearance
Consider implementing a policy to review any of the 292 loans not reviewed as part of this audit that result in a request for claim to ensure that the loans qualified for endorsement under the temporary endorsement policy so that HUD can avoid unnecessary payments for loans that should not have Read More
Open Recommendation
HUD Can Improve Oversight of Its Temporary Endorsement Policy for Loans in COVID-19 Forbearance
Record indemnification agreement data in its system for the 34 loans for which the lender properly executed an indemnification agreement before endorsement and HUD had not recorded the agreement in its system to put up to $3,493,636 to better use by avoiding potential losses.
Open Recommendation
HUD Can Improve Oversight of Its Temporary Endorsement Policy for Loans in COVID-19 Forbearance
Review and correct indemnification agreement data in HUD’s computer systems as needed for all agreements currently classified as having 2-year terms and all agreements related to 2-year agreements contained on its SharePoint site to ensure that its systems contain accurate data for monitoring and Read More
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HUD Can Improve Oversight of Its Temporary Endorsement Policy for Loans in COVID-19 Forbearance
Update indemnification agreements or obtain updated indemnification agreements for the 30 loans for which the indemnification agreements had incorrect or missing information or were not signed by HUD and upload them to its SharePoint site so that such agreements are properly executed and can be Read More
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HUD Can Improve Oversight of Its Temporary Endorsement Policy for Loans in COVID-19 Forbearance
Consider evaluating whether and how a similar policy for disasters or emergencies or a permanent version of the policy could be used to manage risk to the insurance fund while increasing lender participation. This should include further studying lenders’ use of the policy and the long-term Read More
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HUD Did Not Comply With the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019, Washington, DC
Establish an improper payment council within HUD that consists of senior accountable officials from across the Department with a role in the effort that would work to identify risks and challenges to compliance and identify solutions as a collaborative group.
Open Recommendation
HUD Did Not Comply With the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019, Washington, DC
Develop and complete a detailed plan and timeline for completing compliant PIH-TBRA and PBRA program estimates and ensure that the improper payment council prioritizes completion of the plan in time for fiscal year 2023 reporting.
Open Recommendation
HUD Did Not Comply With the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019, Washington, DC
Develop a secure platform for the collection and storage of PIIA data that contain PII and formally assign a staff with adequate training and skillsets to administer the data and application (including maintaining and managing access controls of a chosen application that will be used to store the Read More
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HUD Did Not Comply With the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019, Washington, DC
Reevaluate the methodology and reassess the weight assigned to each risk factor to ensure that appropriate weight is given to risks associated with non-Federal administrators or consider doing one risk assessment for HUD’s internal payment cycle and another risk
assessment for the non-Federal Read More
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HUD Did Not Comply With the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019, Washington, DC
Until program-specific fraud risk assessments are completed, revise the PIIA fraud risk questionnaire process to compensate for the lack of program-specific fraud risk assessments.
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