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Oversight Area	Priority Recommendations	Open Recommendations
Housing Assistance	75	100
Community Development	3	75
Disaster Recovery	3	82
Financial Risk and Accountability	6	130
Technology and Cybersecurity	4	88
Health and Safety	1	53
HUD's Operations	4	100
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We audited the Hammond Housing Authority as part of our annual audit plan to review public housing programs. Our objective was to determine whether the Authority properly administered its U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program in accordance…

Repay its program from non-Federal funds $4,191 for ineligible housing subsidy overpayments.

Support the eligibility of the participant or reimburse its program $6,720 from non-Federal funds for housing subsidy payments.

Support that it properly used the funds collected or repay its program $23,463 from non-Federal funds.

Develop and implement controls to identify errors and ensure that housing assistance payments are correctly calculated and paid, leases run concurrently with the housing assistance payments contract, required eligibility documentation is maintained, rent reasonableness is completed before executing the housing assistance payments contract and lease, the correct utility allowance rate is used, and documentation to support completed background checks is maintained.

Revise its written policies and procedures to ensure that it administers its participant repayment agreements in compliance with requirements.

Ensure that it executes form HUD-52675 with all program participants and adult household members.

Develop written policies and procedures, to include HUD’s requirements to (1) properly report participant data in the PIC system, (2) report repayments and debts owed in the EIV system, and (3) monitor EIV reports.

Compare current participant and financial data to the EIV and PIC system data to ensure that all participant data were accurately submitted and reported.

Revise its administrative plan to ensure that it accurately reflects current HUD requirements and the Authority’s current policies and procedures.

Provide training to its staff to ensure that it is familiar with all HUD documentation and reporting requirements.

In coordination with our Office of Investigations, we audited the Housing Authority of the City of Jasper, TX, because we received a complaint. The complainant’s allegations included the executive director’s misuse of Authority vehicles and other issues. Our audit objective was to determine…

Oversight Area: Rental Assistance

Repay from nonfederal funds $27,818 to its Capital Funds program from non-Federal funds for the ineligible purchase of the truck and expenditure of 2013 funds before they were available.

Repay from nonfederal funds its HUD programs $7,446 for the executive director’s personal use of the Authority’s equipment, and amend the executive director’s prior Internal Revenue Forms W-2 to include the annual personal use of $5,888 as income.

Repay from nonfederal funds its HUD programs $4,739 paid to its fee accountant, which had a conflict of interest with the executive director.

Repay from nonfederal funds its HUD programs $1,273 lost on the conflict of interest sale of the Authority’s vehicle to the executive director’s daughter.

Repay from nonfederal funds its HUD programs $1,034 for ineligible charges on the Authority’s credit cards.

Support or repay from nonfederal funds its HUD programs $652 for unsupported charges on the Authority’s credit card.

Repay from nonfederal funds its HUD programs $4,000 paid for an ineligible 2011 training conference.

Provide support for the reasonableness of the unit repairs costs totaling $44,994 and repay from nonfederal funds any unsupported or unreasonable amount.

Provide training for the Authority’s commissioners on their responsibilities and duties.

Require the Authority to update its policies and procedures so that they contain current Federal guidance.

We recommend that the Director, Departmental Enforcement Center take appropriate administrative sanctions, including suspension, limited denial of participation, or debarment against the executive director.

We recommend that the Director, Departmental Enforcement Center seek civil money penalties, as appropriate, against the executive director.

We recommend that the Associate General Counsel for Program Enforcement determine legal sufficiency and, if legally sufficient, pursue remedies under the Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act against the executive director.

Provide technical assistance to the Mayor and the board concerning their responsibilities regarding the Authority.

Monitor the Authority to ensure it is holding its board meetings, as required by its bylaws.

We audited the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Community Planning and Development’s (CPD) Section 108 Loan Guarantees program. We conducted the audit as part of our annual audit plan. Our audit objectives were to determine whether HUD had adequate oversight of…

Oversight Area: Community Improvement

Reevaluate the feasibility of the two Section 108 activities that failed to meet a national objective and determine the eligibility of the $15,814,000 already invested. Any amount determined ineligible must be reimbursed to the program from non-Federal funds.

Require the borrowers to submit a plan for how they will proceed and use the $8,694,000 million in unused commitments to provide the intended benefits and meet program objectives.

Require the borrower to provide all supporting documentation and evaluate the allowability and eligibility of $75,000 used for the unauthorized activity. Any amount determined ineligible must be reimbursed to the program from non-Federal funds.

Develop procedures directing field offices to include the review of Section 108-funded activities when performing the annual reviews of Block Grant recipients.

Develop procedures to ensure that the information necessary to monitor program performance and compliance with program requirements is promptly provided to the field offices.

Implement procedures to ensure that borrowers comply with all loan contract provisions and that required documents are submitted, including bank agreements, monthly statements, and security documents. If a borrower does not provide evidence that it has complied with all program requirements, HUD must initiate appropriate remedial actions under paragraph 12 of the contract.

Develop and implement a tracking system for monitoring reviews of Section 108 loans.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded the Miami-Dade NSP Consortium more than $89.3 million in Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) 2 funds. We audited two of the consortium members, Neighborhood Housing Services of South Florida, the lead member, and the Urban…

Reimburse NSP2 from non-Federal funds for the $59,523 in ineligible disbursements on the five vouchers.

Provide documentation to support that the $224,868 in NSP2 funds drawn down from the four vouchers was eligible or repay the program from non-Federal funds.

Provide documentation to support that the differences resulting from the payroll costs for the three vouchers, which netted $3,169, were offset in later drawdown vouchers or repay the program from non-Federal funds.

Review all administration drawdown vouchers and provide documentation to support that the drawdowns for estimated payroll costs are reconciled with the actual payroll costs for the pay periods. Any calculated overpayment by NSP should be returned to the program to meet program purposes.

We audited the Inglewood Housing Authority (Authority) based upon issues with participant eligibility identified during our previous review of the financial operations of the Authority’s Housing Choice Voucher program, audit report 2016-LA-1013. Our audit objective was to determine whether the…

Oversight Area: Rental Assistance

Reimburse its program $648 from non-Federal funds and use its internal control procedures to ensure that housing assistance payments are correctly calculated during the certification process to ensure that a $648 overpayment in program funds is appropriately used for future payments.

Reimburse the participants $84 from non-Federal funds for the underpayment of housing assistance.

Develop and implement an internal policy and procedure related to interim certifications to ensure that it obtains EIV reports and maintains those reports in participant files.

Develop and implement controls to minimize instances of overpayment and underpayment of housing assistance.

This report presents the results of our audit of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) fiscal year 2016 compliance with the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act of 2010 (IPERA). For the fourth consecutive fiscal year, we determined that HUD did not comply with…

Ensure that all payments to Federal employees are included in HUD’s periodic risk assessment cycle.

Establish and implement procedures and controls, in coordination with FHA, to ensure that FHA information reported in the AFR is accurate and consistent with supporting documents.

Develop and implement steps to ensure that the description of corrective actions highlights current efforts and key milestones for ongoing efforts and explain in the AFR how it specifically tailored its corrective actions to better reflect the unique processes, procedures, and risks involved with RHAP as required by OMB.

Develop and implement steps to ensure that adequate disclosures are made when future-year reduction targets for improper payments reported in the AFR are higher than the current-year improper payment estimates.

Disclose in the AFR the results of HUD’s review concerning its current performance against program-specific improper payment reduction targets to promote transparency.

We audited the Housing Authority of the City of Tulsa’s administration of its Section 8 program. We selected the Authority based on reports generated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Enterprise Income Verification system (EIV). The Authority had indicators of…

We recommend that the Program Center Coordinator, Office of Public Housing, Oklahoma City, OK, require the Authority to repay $12,739 from non-Federal funds to its Section 8 program for ineligible payments based on incorrect housing assistance payment calculations, incorrect payment standards and utility allowances, and unreported income.

We recommend that the Program Center Coordinator, Office of Public Housing, Oklahoma City, OK, require the Authority to support or repay $28,574 from non-Federal funds to its Section 8 program for unsupported payments based on questionable income calculations.

We recommend that the Program Center Coordinator, Office of Public Housing, Oklahoma City, OK, require the Authority to strengthen its compliance with requirements by implementing a quality control system that would require management to review a sample number of income calculations, ensure staff follow-up on income discrepancies and document their analysis.

We recommend that the Program Center Coordinator, Office of Public Housing, Oklahoma City, OK, require the Authority to implement policies and procedures to monitor the EIV income discrepancy reports each quarter to minimize subsidy payment errors.

We audited the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) required conversion program activities to determine whether HUD ensured that public housing agencies (PHA) properly evaluated their distressed units and converted them to tenant-based rental assistance programs. We selected…

We recommend that HUD’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Housing Investments direct staff to determine whether the nine PHAs that were classified as troubled or physically substandard have public housing developments that are subject to the required conversion requirements to support whether potentially distressed projects should be converted to tenant-based rental assistance. If conversion is required, ensure that it is accomplished timely, thereby ensuring that up to $75,540,916 is used effectively for other projects that are cost effective and have long term viability and ensuring that residents receive other rental assistance. Footnote: The $75 million cited as funds to be put to better use is based on an analysis of available data. We recognize that the 131 PHAs cited in this report, including the 9 PHAs that comprise the $75 million figure, may not have projects with at least 250 units on one or more contiguous sites that have vacancy rates of 12 percent or more. However, the data did not allow us to calculate vacancy rates for each group of contiguous units, and HUD could not provide a reasonable, supported method to identify projects subject to required conversion. To address this recommendation, HUD will need to determine whether these PHAs have projects that are subject to required conversion.

We recommend that HUD’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Housing Investments direct staff to develop and implement policies and procedures with the Office of Field Operations regarding identification of potentially distressed projects and monitoring and enforcement of the required conversion program.

The U.S. Department of Housing Urban Development (HUD), Office of Inspector General audited HUD to determine whether it ensured that lenders properly processed voluntary terminations of insurance coverage on single-family Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans and disclosed all implications of…

Oversight Area: Homeownership

Investigate the 14 loans with unpaid mortgage amounts totaling $3,035,819, and require the lenders to obtain the borrowers consent, reinstate the insurance coverage, or take other action as appropriate given the facts of each particular loan.

Remind lenders that voluntary termination is not the correct termination type to record third-party sales and that borrower consent is required to terminate insurance, even if the loans are indemnified.

Improve its procedures for detecting and sanctioning improper voluntary terminations.

Update Handbook 4000.1 to require the voluntary termination of insurance consent form to include an explanation that voluntary termination differs from mortgage insurance premium cancellation and the disclosure of any outstanding partial claims to put $285,215 to better use.

We audited the Yorkville Cooperative’s administration of its U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)-insured property and housing assistance contract based on a complaint alleging that the Cooperative (1) spent excessive amounts for maintenance and repairs and (2) did not recertify…

Provide documentation to show that prices paid for purchases of products and services totaling $970,381 were fair and reasonable or reimburse the project from nonproject funds for any amounts that were not fair and reasonable.

Provide documentation to show that payments for work totaling $716,693 complied with applicable building codes or reimburse the project from nonproject funds for payments that did not comply with the codes and take action to bring the work up to code.

Provide documentation to support payments totaling $163,885 or reimburse the project from nonproject funds for payments that it cannot support.

Develop and implement written procedures to ensure that it obtains written cost estimates as required and maintains complete documentation to support expenditures and that contractors performing or managing construction, removal, repair, or improvement work are properly licensed as required.

Reimburse the project $296,787 from nonproject funds for the ineligible legal expenses.

Reimburse HUD $3,892 from nonproject funds for the overpayment of housing assistance.

Correct the errors in the tenant files identified during the audit.

Review the issues identified in this audit report and if appropriate, pursue administrative sanctions against the board of directors for the violations cited in this report.

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The Hammond Housing Authority’s, Hammond, LA, Administration of Its Housing Choice Voucher Program Had Weaknesses

The Housing Authority of the City of Jasper, TX, Did Not Operate Its Public Housing Programs in Compliance With HUD’s Requirements

HUD’s Oversight of Section 108 Loans Was Not Adequate To Ensure Compliance With Program Requirements

Neighborhood Housing Services of South Florida, Miami, FL Did Not Ensure That NSP2 Funds Were Used for Eligible Purposes and Sufficiently Supported

The Inglewood Housing Authority, Inglewood, CA, Generally Ensured the Eligibility of Its Housing Choice Voucher Program Participants

Fiscal Year 2016 Audit of HUD’s Compliance with the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act

The Housing Authority of the City of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, Did Not Always Correctly Compute Housing Assistance Payments

HUD PIH’s Required Conversion Program Was Not Adequately Implemented

HUD Did Not Ensure That Lenders Properly Processed Voluntary Terminations of Insurance Coverage on FHA Loans and Disclosed All Implications of the Terminations to the Borrowers

The Yorkville Cooperative, Fairfax, VA, Did Not Administer Its HUD-Insured Property and Housing Assistance Contract According to Applicable Requirements

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