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.
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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.
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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
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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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HUD Did Not Comply With the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019, Washington, DC
Reassess the Homeless Assistance Grants program as part of the fiscal year 2023 risk assessment.
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HUD's Oversight of CDBG-DR Grantees' Use of Program Income
We recommend that the Director for HUD’s Office of Disaster Recovery require grantees to support or repay to its program $2,551,375, from nonfederal funds, for the 9 vouchers that did not have adequate supporting documentation for expenditures.
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HUD's Oversight of CDBG-DR Grantees' Use of Program Income
We recommend that the Director for HUD’s Office of Disaster Recovery work with its grantee to resolve or correct program income balances for the three grants that had program income balances outstanding.
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HUD's Oversight of CDBG-DR Grantees' Use of Program Income
We recommend that the Director for HUD’s Office of Disaster Recovery develop and implement controls to ensure that program income balance discrepancies are identified and corrected.
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HUD's Oversight of CDBG-DR Grantees' Use of Program Income
We recommend that the Director for HUD’s Office of Disaster Recovery develop and implement controls to ensure that untimely FFRs are identified and corrected.
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HUD's Oversight of CDBG-DR Grantees' Use of Program Income
We recommend that the Director for HUD’s Office of Disaster Recovery establish a mechanism to train grantees and HUD staff on existing guidance regarding supporting documentation for expenditures, FFRs, and program income balances on a recurring basis. Additionally, provide guidance and establish Read More
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HUD's Oversight of CDBG-DR Grantees' Use of Program Income
We recommend that the Director for HUD’s Office of Disaster Recovery implement quality control procedures to ensure that HUD staff completes the action plan and QPR checklists.
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HUD's Oversight of CDBG-DR Grantees' Use of Program Income
We recommend that the Director for HUD’s Office of Disaster Recovery develop and implement controls to ensure that grantees’ policies and procedures related to program income are adequate.
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HUD's Oversight of CDBG-DR Grantees' Use of Program Income
We recommend that the Director for HUD’s Office of Disaster Recovery provide training to grantees regarding the reporting, tracking, and expenditure of program income.
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Improvements Are Needed To Ensure That Public Housing Properties Are Inspected in a Timely
Manner
Prioritize the inspection of public housing properties that were (1) not included in the NSPIRE demonstration but were identified as high priority under the Center’s Big Inspection Plan and (2) approved to participate under the NSPIRE demonstration that the Center was unable to inspect by March 31 Read More
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Improvements Are Needed To Ensure That Public Housing Properties Are Inspected in a Timely
Manner
Implement adequate policies, procedures, and controls to ensure that public housing properties will be inspected within required timeframes.
Status
While the NSPIRE regulations on inspection timing are completed, the Real Estate Assessment Center is not able to make the required Read More
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The Stark Metropolitan Housing Authority, Canton, OH, Did Not Always Comply With Federal and Its Own Procurement Requirements
We recommend that the Director of HUD’s Cleveland Office of Public Housing require the Authority to Support the reasonableness of $80,685 paid to a vendor for pest control services without a valid contract or repay its Public Housing Operating Fund or Capital Fund program from non-Federal funds Read More
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The Stark Metropolitan Housing Authority, Canton, OH, Did Not Always Comply With Federal and Its Own Procurement Requirements
We recommend that the Director of HUD’s Cleveland Office of Public Housing require the Authority to Support the reasonableness of the amounts paid for the two noncompetitively awarded contracts (0917 and 1125) that lacked adequate support for the independent cost estimate and price analysis or Read More
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The Stark Metropolitan Housing Authority, Canton, OH, Did Not Always Comply With Federal and Its Own Procurement Requirements
We recommend that the Director of HUD’s Cleveland Office of Public Housing require the Authority to support the $48,310 in excess costs paid for landscaping services or reimburse its program from non-Federal funds.
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The Stark Metropolitan Housing Authority, Canton, OH, Did Not Always Comply With Federal and Its Own Procurement Requirements
For the contract activities during the period of January 1, 2020, through April 2022, the Director should require the Authority to support the reasonableness of $57,902 paid to three vendors for pest control services without a valid contract or repay its Public Housing Operating Fund or Capital Read More
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