Ensure that timely physical condition inspections of all Section 232 program facilities are performed. (This expands on the Office of Evaluation’s third recommendation in report number 2017-OE-0011.)
2018-CF-0801 | January 04, 2018
Management Alert: HUD Did Not Provide Acceptable Oversight of the Physical Condition of Residential Care Facilities
Housing
- Status2018-CF-0801-001-BOpenClosed
- Status2018-CF-0801-001-COpenClosed
Reimplement the REAC physical condition inspections for the SNFs that were exempted from routine physical inspections by 24 CFR 200.855.
2018-AT-1802 | December 28, 2017
Yabucoa Housing Project, Yabucoa Volunteers of America Elderly Housing, Inc., Yabucoa, PR, Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly Program
Housing
- Status2018-AT-1802-001-AOpenClosed
Track and ensure that Volunteers returns to the Treasury any funds recovered through the ongoing litigation pertaining to the Yabucoa housing project.
- Status2018-AT-1802-001-BOpenClosed$1,440,165Funds 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.
Deobligate and recapture $1,440,165 in undrawn Section 202 funds assigned to the project.
- Status2018-AT-1802-001-COpenClosed$140,000Questioned Costs
Recommendations with questioned costs identify costs: (A) resulting from an alleged violation of a law, regulation, contract, grant, or other document or agreement governing the use of Federal funds; (B) that are not supported by adequate documentation (also known as an unsupported cost); or (C) that appear unnecessary or unreasonable.
Require Volunteers to reimburse to the United States Treasury $140,000 from non-Federal funds for ineligible project construction costs charged to the Section 202 project.
- Status2018-AT-1802-001-DOpenClosed$1,057,467Questioned Costs
Recommendations with questioned costs identify costs: (A) resulting from an alleged violation of a law, regulation, contract, grant, or other document or agreement governing the use of Federal funds; (B) that are not supported by adequate documentation (also known as an unsupported cost); or (C) that appear unnecessary or unreasonable.
Return to the Puerto Rico Department of Housing $1,057,467, plus any interest earned, for the duplicate special escrow fund payments it received.
2018-CH-0001 | December 21, 2017
HUD Needs To Improve Its Oversight of Grants Funded Through Its Resident Home-Ownership Program
Housing
- Status2018-CH-0001-001-AOpenClosed
Conduct onsite management reviews of the projects to supplement the onsite use restriction agreement compliance monitoring reviews to ensure that the projects are operated in accordance with HUD’s requirements.
- Status2018-CH-0001-001-BOpenClosed
Work with the Office of Multifamily Asset Management and Portfolio Oversight to develop and issue guidance on requirements in the grant and use agreements that would benefit the grantees’ board members and staff of the projects’ management agents.
2018-FO-0004 | November 14, 2017
Additional Details To Supplement Our Fiscal Years 2017 and 2016 (Restated) U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Financial Statement Audit
Housing
- Status2018-FO-0004-008-FOpenClosed$45,423,522Funds 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.
Deobligate all obligations marked for deobligation during the departmentwide OOR, including as much as $42,491,202 in 581 administrative obligations and $2,932,320 in 12 program obligations marked for deobligation as of September 30, 2017.
- Status2018-FO-0004-008-GOpenClosed$56,435,559Funds 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.
Review the 84 identified inactive retained obligations with remaining balances totaling $56,435,559 and close out and deobligate amounts tied to obligations that are no longer valid or needed.
- Status2018-FO-0004-008-HOpenClosed$104,131,873Funds 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.
Review and if necessary deobligate the 40 and 30 expired or inactive Section 236 and Section 202-811 projects totaling $17,416,572 and $86,715,301, respectively.
Chief Financial Officer
- Status2018-FO-0004-001-AOpenClosed
Implement a repeatable and sustainable process to prepare timely and accurate quarterly financial statement notes, including third and fourth quarter notes within the OMB required timeframe.
- Status2018-FO-0004-001-BOpenClosed
Establish policies and procedures for recording the budget authority apportioned to HUD during a continuing resolution, including both the proprietary and budgetary transactions.
- Status2018-FO-0004-001-COpenClosed
Ensure that the budget execution policies and procedures are properly delegated, assigned, and communicated to the personnel fulfilling these responsibilities.
- Status2018-FO-0004-001-DOpenClosed
Ensure that the budget execution procedures executed internally by OCFO Budget are consistent with those established by ARC.
- Status2018-FO-0004-001-EOpenClosed
Develop and implement policies and procedures to ensure that intragovernmental differences identified with U.S. Treasury’s General Fund are resolved on a timely basis with corrective action plans.
- Status2018-FO-0004-002-AOpenClosed
Work with PIH to develop and implement a consistent and reasonable methodology for determining the PIH prepayment that (1) allows for timely recording of financial events, (2) complies with GAAP, and (3) provides an adequate audit trail until the cash management process is automated.
- Status2018-FO-0004-002-BOpenClosed
Develop and implement procedures to ensure that the methodology is reevaluated by PIH and OCFO annually and any changes do not compromise (1) the audit trial, (2) compliance with GAAP, or (3) the accuracy of the balance.
- Status2018-FO-0004-002-COpenClosed
Reopen recommendation 2016-FO-0003-002-A, “Evaluate the IHBG investment process and implement a proper accounting treatment in accordance with Federal GAAP.”
- Status2018-FO-0004-002-DOpenClosed
Reopen recommendation 2016-FO-0003-002-B, “Work with the Office of Native American Programs to calculate the amounts advanced to grantees and restate HUD’s financial statements to recognize the prepayments on the financial statements.”