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Hawaii-based Grantee ESG-CV Program Fraud Risk Management Assessment

HUD OIG is auditing a Hawaii-based grantee's Coronavirus, Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG-CV) program. The CARES Act provided nearly $4 billion in special ESG funds to grantees to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the coronavirus pandemic and supports activities, such as, rapid re-housing, homelessness prevention programs, and emergency shelters for people experiencing homelessness. Our objective is to assess the grantee's fraud risk framework, which encompasses control activities to prevent, detect, and respond to fraud.

HUD and CoCs Collection and Use of Homelessness Data to Assess Performance

HUD OIG is auditing HUD's Continuum of Care (CoC) program, which is a grant program designed to promote community wide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness. A CoC is a regional or local planning body that coordinates housing and services funding for homeless families and individuals and HUD provided $2.6 billion in CoC funding for the 2021 grant competition year. Our objective is to determine how HUD and CoCs collect and use data to assess performance in identifying and reducing homelessness.

New York-based Grantee ESG-CV Program Fraud Risk Management Assessment

HUD OIG is auditing a New York-based grantee's Coronavirus, Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG-CV) program. The CARES Act provided nearly $4 billion in special ESG funds to grantees to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the coronavirus pandemic and supports activities, such as, rapid re-housing, homelessness prevention programs, and emergency shelters for people experiencing homelessness.

ESG CARES Act Subrecipient and Contractor Monitoring

HUD OIG is auditing HUD's Coronavirus, Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG-CV) program, which is a grant program that funds rapid re-housing, homelessness prevention programs, and emergency shelters for people experiencing homelessness. The CARES Act provided nearly $4 billion special ESG funds to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Office of Community Planning and Development’s Use of Remote Monitoring

The Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD) traditionally uses onsite monitoring to monitor its grantees.  However, in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, CPD shifted to 100 percent remote monitoring.  Monitoring was momentarily paused in fiscal year (FY) 2020 and was reinstituted remotely in FY 2021. To support its remote monitoring approach, CPD launched the Grantee Document Exchange (GDX), an externally accessible portal application that allows grantees and CPD to securely share documents during monitoring sessions.  CPD trained its

Attestation Engagement of HUD's Compliance with Office of National Drug Control Policies (ONDCP) for Fiscal Year 2022 Reporting

HUD OIG has initiated an attestation engagement of HUD’s Fiscal Year 2022 National Drug Control activities. Our objective is to obtain limited assurance about whether any material modifications should be made to HUD’s assertions on its drug control funding and accompanying fiscal year 2022 reports in order for them to be in accordance with ONDCP’s requirements. OIG is required to do this attestation at least every 3 years.

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