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We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary instruct the Authority to develop and implement monitoring policies and detailed procedures to guide the Authority’s CMU staff in assessing activity performance to meet the subrecipient monitoring requirements and establish written performance metrics to progressively achieve the performance outcome for those activities the Authority administers.
We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary require HUD program staff to provide technical assistance to the Authority to address deficiencies noted throughout the audit report.
We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary work with the Authority to assess the risk of potential improper payment for projects PW273 and PW100 and vouchers 576322, 583423, and 578761.
We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary instruct the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority to conduct training for Authority staff on the newly developed or revised policies and procedures
We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary instruct the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority to revise its policies and procedures to include requirements to document its basis for activities’ meeting the national objective, including the rationale for the service area used and a list of acceptable documents to support that the area was primarily residential for the low- and moderate- income area benefit national objective.
We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary instruct the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority to develop and implement detailed policies and procedures to guide staff in reporting performance outcomes in the QPR and on its disaster recovery website.
We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary instruct the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority to develop and implement procedures to ensure that all Match Program activities are monitored, and guidance is provided to its Match Program recipients.
We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary instruct the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority to enforce its subrecipient agreement requirement to submit monthly status reports.
We recommend that the Deputy Assistant Secretary instruct the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority to develop and implement procedures, including financial controls, to enhance its tracking of payments made with CDBG-DR funds and payments made with FEMA funds to ensure that payments are not made for the same invoices, match requirements are not exceeded before closeout, and a thorough review is conducted for award increases and cost reasonableness.
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.
