Refer troubled PHAs directly to the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing when they have not met the 1- or 2-year recovery requirements.

Ensure that referrals to the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing recommend only recovery options allowed by the law and regulations.

Update training to include the actions that PIH must take when a troubled PHA does not meet the 1- or 2-year recovery requirements.

Provide training on remedies for long-term troubled PHAs to All PIH staff members who routinely interact with troubled PHAs.

Submit an annual troubled PHAs report to congress in accordance with the statute.

Develop and implement adequate enforcement procedures that support its policy and ensure that housing quality standards deficiencies are corrected in a timely manner.

Ensure that the HECM cash flow model assumptions capture all valid assignments or provide an analysis showing that the model results are not biased due to the exclusion of valid HECM assignments.

Document and implement policies and procedures to ensure that data observations for key assumptions that are inconsistent with FHA’s understanding of program operations are researched and further analyzed and that all results are concurrently documented and included in the model documentation.

Update the posting models to ensure that refunds relating to payments made in prior years are properly recorded in accordance with OMB Circular A-11.

Correct the programming error in the HERMIT system to ensure that the correct insurance-in-force balances are reported on the note disclosures.

Develop policies and procedures to ensure that the line items in the required note disclosures are understood, properly calculated, and properly disclosed in the financial statements in accordance with OMB Circular A-136.

Cancel the Section 8 Project-Based Voucher Program housing assistance payments contract for 90 units improperly converted under RAD. The owner should work with HUD and the Authority to protect the tenancy of the affected tenants at the time of contract cancellation.

Reimburse HUD’s Section 8 program administered by the Authority $485,475 in housing assistance payments from nonproject funds for the improper issuance of tenant protection assistance and an improper RAD conversion to the Project-Based Voucher Program for the 90 units.

Develop and implement procedures to ensure that when tenant protection assistance is requested as a result of a housing conversion action, the forms HUD-50059 and or tenant profiles is generated only based on a completed action and that the forms or profiles are provided to HUD instead of the Authority.

Provide adequate training to staff associated with administering tenant protection and project-based assistance to help ensure compliance with program requirements.

Require lenders to obtain the borrowers’ consent to verify the existence of delinquent Federal taxes with the IRS during loan origination and deny any applicant with delinquent Federal tax debt and no payment plan or a noncompliant payment plan or an applicant refusing to provide consent from receiving FHA insurance to put at least $6.1 billion to better use by avoiding potential future costs to the FHA insurance fund.

Status

To fully address this recommendation, HUD will need to provide evidence that it established a method of borrower consent to verify the existence of delinquent federal taxes including, but not limited to one of the options OIG provided, which were (1) lenders obtaining the borrowers' consent to obtain their tax records directly from the IRS or (2) borrowers accessing their own tax information and submitting it to the lenders.

Implementation of this rule should result in HUD putting $6.1 billion to better use.

Analysis

To fully address this recommendation, HUD will need to provide evidence that it established a method of borrower consent to verify the existence of delinquent federal taxes including, but not limited to one of the options OIG provided, which were (1) lenders obtaining the borrowers' consent to obtain their tax records directly from the IRS or (2) borrowers accessing their own tax information and submitting it to the lenders.

Implementation of this rule should result in HUD putting $6.1 billion to better use.

Revise HUD handbooks for forward and reverse mortgages to reflect that tax liens and judgments are no longer reported on credit reports.

Revise HUD handbooks for forward and reverse mortgages for uniformity in the treatment of delinquent tax debt and the existence of payment plans as only the forward mortgage handbook requires 3 months of payments.

Reimburse its program from non-Federal funds for the $62,377 used to pay for the excess executive compensation.

Develop and implement written policies, procedures, and other financial controls to ensure that Sections 8 and 9 funds are not used to pay for compensation over the salary limit.