Design and implement a procedure that ensures periodic communication between OCFO and PIH regarding all events that impact the PIH prepayment estimate.
2019-FO-0003 | November 14, 2018
Additional Details To Supplement Our Fiscal Years 2018 and 2017 (Restated) U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Financial Statement Audit
Chief Financial Officer
- Status2019-FO-0003-002-KOpenClosedClosed on September 24, 2019
- Status2019-FO-0003-002-LOpenClosedClosed on November 19, 2019
Review FMC’s final December 31, 2016, balances and update the PIH prepayment beginning balance accordingly.
- Status2019-FO-0003-004-AOpenClosedClosed on September 30, 2019
Delegate responsibilities to the appropriate program office and assign risk owners to provide responses for the acceptance, mitigation, and elimination of risks identified in HUD’s ERM risk profile.
- Status2019-FO-0003-004-BOpenClosedClosed on September 30, 2019
Develop, implement, and document internal controls in response to identified risks from HUD’s ERM risk profile in compliance with OMB Circular No. A-123, Management's Responsibility for Enterprise Risk Management and Internal Control.
- Status2019-FO-0003-004-COpenClosedClosed on September 30, 2019
Complete and issue final FERA policy to the Department and communicate the requirements within the policy to program offices in a timely manner.
- Status2019-FO-0003-004-DOpenClosedClosed on September 30, 2019
Assign and communicate the responsibility of FERA policy implementation and oversight to ensure that program offices are performing FERAs on a routine and timely basis to ensure effectiveness and efficiency of operations at the HUD program level and compliance with HUD internal policy and procedure.
- Status2019-FO-0003-004-EOpenClosedClosed on December 06, 2021
Assign and communicate the responsibility of the MCR program policy, implementation, and oversight to ensure that program offices routinely conduct reviews to support a compliant internal control framework.
- Status2019-FO-0003-005-AOpenClosedClosed on August 22, 2019
Conduct the OOR more frequently than annually to ensure that all obligations are adequately reviewed and deobligations are processed by the end of the fiscal year
- Status2019-FO-0003-005-BOpenClosedClosed on September 20, 2019
Develop departmental policy that outlines the open obligation review process, to include (1) internal controls, (2) timeframes, and (3) roles and responsibilities of OCFO, OCPO, and program offices. These policies must outline sufficient internal controls in place to ensure that the Secretary can certify that all of HUD’s obligations are valid as of the end of the fiscal year.
- Status2019-FO-0003-005-COpenClosedClosed on June 24, 2019
Update standard operating procedures on the departmentwide unliquidated obligations review to conduct a routine review of justifications provided by the program offices for retained obligations, while ensuring that they are for a bonafide need and to support the annual certification made by the Secretary on open obligations.
- Status2019-FO-0003-005-DOpenClosedClosed on September 13, 2019
As part of the OOR process, conduct monitoring activities of obligations sent to OCPO for deobligation by developing a mechanism to routinely track the status, to include key information, such as but not limited to the owner (program), date transmitted to OCPO, point of contact, last contact date, and current status. OCFO should use this information to ensure that all information has been communicated among all parties involved to enable timely deobligation.
- Status2019-FO-0003-010-AOpenClosedClosed on September 30, 2020
Implement a process to ensure that ongoing ADA violation investigations are properly documented as the investigation progresses to enable timely review of open cases.
Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity
- Status2019-FO-0003-005-KOpenClosed$168,198Funds Put to Better Use
Recommendations that funds be put to better use estimate funds that could be used more efficiently. For example, recommendations that funds be put to better use could result in reductions in spending, deobligation of funds, or avoidance of unnecessary spending.
Closed on June 10, 2021Deobligate all obligations marked for deobligation during the departmentwide OOR, including as much as $168,198 in 29 obligations marked for deobligation as of September 30, 2018.
- Status2019-FO-0003-005-LOpenClosed$110,224Funds Put to Better Use
Recommendations that funds be put to better use estimate funds that could be used more efficiently. For example, recommendations that funds be put to better use could result in reductions in spending, deobligation of funds, or avoidance of unnecessary spending.
Closed on April 17, 2019Review the five identified retained inactive obligations with remaining balances totaling $110,224 and close out and deobligate amounts tied to obligations that are no longer valid or needed.
Lead Hazard Control
- Status2019-FO-0003-005-OOpenClosed$60,395Funds Put to Better Use
Recommendations that funds be put to better use estimate funds that could be used more efficiently. For example, recommendations that funds be put to better use could result in reductions in spending, deobligation of funds, or avoidance of unnecessary spending.
Closed on March 27, 2019Review the one identified retained inactive obligation with a remaining balance totaling $60,395 and deobligate amounts that are no longer valid or needed.
2019-FO-0002 | November 13, 2018
Audit of the Federal Housing Administration’s Financial Statements for Fiscal Years 2018 and 2017 (Restated)
Housing
- Status2019-FO-0002-001-AOpenClosedClosed on March 26, 2019
Correct the impact of all of the modeling errors identified in this report.
- Status2019-FO-0002-001-BOpenClosedClosed on September 30, 2019
Revise the modeling policies and procedures to use the established HECM loan limits in the HECM LLG cash flow model.
- Status2019-FO-0002-001-COpenClosedClosed on September 30, 2019
Develop alternative policies and procedures that would enable the use of the final single-family LLG cash flow model results and HECM return on notes cash flow model results in the final ROA models.
- Status2019-FO-0002-001-DOpenClosedClosed on September 30, 2019
Reassess the HECM assumption that mortgages with an unpaid principal balance greater than the maximum claim amount will not be assigned to HUD and perform the following: (1) compare this assumption to historical experience, (2) document the basis for selecting the assumption as opposed to alternative assumptions, and (3) determine the impact of this assumption and the associated risk.
- Status2019-FO-0002-001-EOpenClosedClosed on September 23, 2019
Reassess the model design that was implemented to avoid the double counting of the cash flows for HECM mortgages in the LLG cash flow and ROA models and perform the following: (1) determine whether there are alternative methodologies that will not result in the exclusion of cash flows in both models, (2) document the basis of the selected methodology, and (3) determine the impact and risk of the selected methodology.