HUD Could Improve Its Oversight of Portability in the Housing Choice Voucher Program
Distribute $35,189 to the applicable public housing agencies for the underpayment of special administrative fees for portability cited in this finding.
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HUD Could Improve Its Oversight of Portability in the Housing Choice Voucher Program
Review the calculations and distributions of funds for the 2019 category 2b portability set-aside and special administrative fees for portability to ensure that the spreadsheet errors did not carry forward from the previous calculations.
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HUD Could Improve Its Process for Evaluating the Performance of Public Housing Agencies' Housing Choice Voucher Programs
We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Housing and Voucher Programs enhance SEMAP or develop a new performance measurement process that would identify PHAs with underperforming HCV Programs, which should include an assessment of PHAs’ ability to maximize assistance to house Read More
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HUD Could Improve Its Process for Evaluating the Performance of Public Housing Agencies' Housing Choice Voucher Programs
We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Field Operations Provide additional training and guidance to field office program staff on SEMAP scoring, rating, and verification procedures, including confirmatory reviews, quality control reviews, and adjustments to the SEMAP process.
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HUD Could Improve Its Process for Evaluating the Performance of Public Housing Agencies' Housing Choice Voucher Programs
We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Field Operations provide training and guidance to field office program staff on SEMAP scoring, rating, and verification procedures, including confirmatory reviews, quality control reviews, and adjustments, as appropriate, for the revised SEMAP Read More
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HUD Could Improve Its Tracking and Monitoring of Continuum of Care Grantee Spending Levels
Implement written procedures to ensure consistency among field offices in reviewing spending issues, potentially preventing up to an estimated $47 million in annual CoC recaptures.
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HUD Could Improve Its Tracking and Monitoring of Continuum of Care Grantee Spending Levels
Design and implement a training program and other development tools to help grantees. The goal of such training would be to provide ideas and other development tools to help the CoCs better provide assistance with implementation of their grants and monitoring of their grantees, including Read More
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HUD Could Strengthen Controls Over Employee Benefits Expensed at Public Housing Agencies
Evaluate the risk that employee benefit contributions expensed at PHAs may be unreasonable and, if determined necessary, establish and implement controls to reduce or eliminate the evaluated risk.
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HUD Could Strengthen Controls Over Employee Benefits Expensed at Public Housing Agencies
Develop and implement additional guidance to ensure that PHAs enter accurate employee benefit data into FASS-PH.
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HUD Could Not Support the Reasonableness of the Operating and Capital Fund Programs' Fees and Did Not Adequately Monitor Central Office Cost Centers
Revise HUD’s asset management fee policy to refederalize the Operating Fund program’s management and bookkeeping fees and the Capital Fund program’s management fees.
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HUD Could Not Support the Reasonableness of the Operating and Capital Fund Programs' Fees and Did Not Adequately Monitor Central Office Cost Centers
HUD should remove the provision that allows public housing authorities to charge asset management fees, which would ensure that at least $81.6 million in operating funds could be put to better use in meeting HUD program objectives.
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HUD Could Not Support the Reasonableness of the Operating and Capital Fund Programs' Fees and Did Not Adequately Monitor Central Office Cost Centers
Establish and implement procedures to reassess the management and bookkeeping fees periodically to ensure that they are reasonable. HUD should retain the documentation justifying the calculation of the rates.
Open Recommendation
HUD Could Not Support the Reasonableness of the Operating and Capital Fund Programs' Fees and Did Not Adequately Monitor Central Office Cost Centers
Develop, document, and implement written procedures to ensure that fees charged to the asset management projects and Capital Fund program and expenses from the central office cost center are used to support HUD’s mission.
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HUD Did Not Adequately Administer Its Housing Counseling Program
We recommend that HUD’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Housing Counseling identify additional housing counseling agencies that were classified as reapproved when it had not completed a performance review upon expiration of the approved period and determine whether they are properly qualified to Read More
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HUD Did Not Adequately Administer Its Housing Counseling Program
We recommend that HUD’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Housing Counseling obtain and provide documentation for the four housing counseling agency reapprovals and the three housing counseling agency voucher approvals to show that the $1,310,719 in Housing Counseling Grant funds5 disbursed was for Read More
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HUD Did Not Adequately Administer Its Housing Counseling Program
We recommend that HUD’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Housing Counseling update its policies and procedures to ensure consistency and adequacy of the agency approval, performance review, voucher approval, and termination and posttermination processes. Specifically, the updates should ensure that Read More
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HUD Did Not Adequately Administer Its Housing Counseling Program
We recommend that HUD’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Housing Counseling ensure that the new Housing Counseling Agency Management System provides HUD with the ability to adequately oversee the work of its staff and track important housing counseling agency milestones, including HUD approval Read More
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HUD Did Not Adequately Support the Reasonableness of the Fee-for-Service Amounts or Monitor the Amounts Charged
Establish and implement procedures to reassess the safe harbor percentage and rates periodically to ensure that they are reasonable. HUD should retain the documentation justifying the calculation of those percentages and rates. In addition, HUD should assess the feasibility of requiring the Read More
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HUD Did Not Administer Economic Development Initiative - Special Project and Neighborhood Initiative Congressional Grants in Accordance With Program Requirements
Support the eligibility of more than $4,187,560 in unsupported costs or require the grantees to repay the U.S. Treasury from non-Federal funds.
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HUD Did Not Administer Economic Development Initiative - Special Project and Neighborhood Initiative Congressional Grants in Accordance With Program Requirements
Require one grantee to repay the U.S. Treasury $343,000 from non-Federal funds for ineligible program costs incurred for the project identified in this report.
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