Ensure that its staff is appropriately trained and familiar with HUD’s requirements and its program action plan regarding the administration of its program to ensure that (1) participants’ individual training and services plans are complete and contain appropriate goals to assist the family in achieving self-sufficiency, (2) participants are notified of their escrow account balances at least annually, and (3) contracts of participation are…

Ensure that its newly created policies and procedures include a process for ensuring that (1) escrow balances are correctly calculated and disbursed, (2) escrow accounts and disbursements are fully supported, and (3) forfeited escrow account funds are returned to the Housing Choice Voucher Program as required.

Determine the amount of the $445,122 in coordinator grant funds that were appropriately earned by the Authority for meeting requirements and paid to the coordinators while performing duties of the Family Self-Sufficiency program. The funds that are determined to be unearned should be reimbursed to HUD from non-Federal funds.

Reimburse its program $20,450 from non-Federal funds ($10,331 $10,119 in associated administrative fees) for the overpayment of housing assistance due to inappropriate calculations of housing assistance.

Reimburse the appropriate households $3,590 from program funds for the underpayment of housing assistance due to inappropriate calculations.

Support or reimburse its program $18,638 from non-Federal funds for the unsupported payments of housing assistance cited in this finding.

Enter into repayment agreements to pursue collection from the applicable households or reimburse its program $6,367 from non-Federal funds for the overpayment of housing assistance due to unreported or underreported income

Implement adequate procedures and controls to ensure that housing assistance payments are appropriately calculated and supported and that repayment agreements are created to recover overpaid housing assistance when unreported income is discovered during the examination process to ensure that $453,999 ($351,060 $102,939) in program funds is appropriately used for future payments.

Reimburse its program $3,117 from non-Federal funds for the ineligible program expenditures.

The OIG has determined that the contents of this recommendation would not be appropriate for public disclosure and has therefore limited its distribution to selected officials.

The OIG has determined that the contents of this recommendation would not be appropriate for public disclosure and has therefore limited its distribution to selected officials.

The OIG has determined that the contents of this recommendation would not be appropriate for public disclosure and has therefore limited its distribution to selected officials.

Correct the impact of all of the modeling errors identified in this report.

Revise the modeling policies and procedures to use the established HECM loan limits in the HECM LLG cash flow model.

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.

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.

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.

Restate the fiscal year 2017 financial statements to correct the impact of using the improper discounting methodology in the HECM ROA model in fiscal year 2017.

Implement an automated subsidiary ledger system with the capability of obtaining loan-level transaction data from FHA, Treasury, and FFB source systems.

Work with Treasury and FFB to receive monthly loan-level transaction reports.