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.
2023-FO-0009 | May 22, 2023
HUD Did Not Comply with the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019
Chief Financial Officer
- Status2023-FO-0009-001-AOpenClosed
- Status2023-FO-0009-001-BOpenClosedClosed on March 12, 2024
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.
- Status2023-FO-0009-001-COpenClosedClosed on September 29, 2023
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 PIIA data with PII).
- Status2023-FO-0009-002-AOpenClosedClosed on September 29, 2023
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 assessment for the non-Federal entities that administer HUD’s program funds.
- Status2023-FO-0009-002-BOpenClosedClosed on September 29, 2023
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.
- Status2023-FO-0009-002-COpenClosedClosed on September 29, 2023
Reassess the Homeless Assistance Grants program as part of the fiscal year 2023 risk assessment.