Audit of HUD’s Compliance with Payment Integrity Information Act (PIIA) for fiscal year 2025

HUD OIG is auditing HUD's compliance with the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 (PIIA) for fiscal year 2025. PIIA helps agencies identify improper payments, which could impact HUD’s beneficiaries and ultimately undermines the integrity of HUD’s programs, which hinders HUD in fully achieving its mission. Our objectives are to assess (1) whether HUD has met all requirements of PIIA for fiscal year 2025 and OMB Circular A-123 Appendix C (M-21-19), and (2) HUD’s efforts to prevent and reduce improper and unknown payments.

 

Assessment of HUD’s processes related to the Buy America Preference of the Build America, Buy America Act

HUD OIG is conducting an evaluation of HUD’s processes related to the Buy America Preference of the Build America, Buy America Act (BABA). Our evaluation will focus on Buy America Preference processes and applicable grants awarded on or after November 15, 2021. Our evaluation objective is to assess HUD’s processes, specifically those in the Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD), Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH), Office of Housing (Housing), and Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes (OLHCHH), related to the BABA.
 

HUD IT Access Controls

HUD OIG is reviewing HUD's information Technology (IT) access control policies and procedures. The objective of our evaluation is to determine whether access to selected systems is properly authorized, maintained, and terminated in accordance with HUD policies, federal guidelines, and least privilege principles. Our review will cover the period of October 1, 2024, through May 19, 2025.

Improper Payment Estimate for HUD's Multifamily Project Based Rental Assistance (MF-PBRA) Program

HUD OIG is initiating an audit to estimate improper payments in HUD’s Project-Based Assistance program (PBRA) under the Office of Multi-Family Housing (MF). HUD has not been able to perform an estimate of this program as required by the Payment Integrity Information Act (PIIA) of 2019 for the last 8 years. Our objective is to determine whether a sample of housing assistance payments (HAP) in the MF-PBRA program are proper; if improper, then we will estimate the total improper and unknown payments. 

 

HUD's Workforce Reductions Review

HUD OIG is doing a review of HUD's workforce reductions.  The review will highlight the HUD offices that are majorly impacted by the workforce reductions and will also summarize the demographics of employees who were terminated or resigned between January 20, 2025 and May 31, 2025.  The objective of this review is to provide a status of HUD’s workforce reduction efforts as of May 2025 and a snapshot of how the reduction efforts impacted the size of various offices and demographics across HUD. 

Public and Indian Housing (PIH) Information Technology (IT) Modernization Resourcing Evaluation

The OIG Office of Evaluation is initiating an evaluation of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Public and Indian Housing (PIH) Information Technology (IT) Modernization program. The objectives are to assess the IT Modernization process for Enterprise Voucher Management System (EVMS) and Housing Information Portal (HIP) systems that support key PIH programs.

Improper Payment Estimate for HUD's Public and Indian Housing Tenant-Based Rental Assistance (PIH-TBRA) Program

HUD OIG is initiating an audit to estimate improper payments in HUD’s Tenant-Based Rental Assistance program (TBRA) under the Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH). HUD has not been able to perform an estimate of this program as required by the Payment Integrity Information Act (PIIA) of 2019 for the last 8 years. Our objective is to determine whether a sample of housing assistance payments (HAP) in the PIH-TBRA program are proper; if improper, then we will estimate the total improper and unknown payments. 
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