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Parent Oversight Areas

Improper Payment Estimate for HUD’s Public and Indian Housing Tenant-Based Rental Assistance (PIH-TBRA) Program

HUD OIG is initiating an audit to estimate improper payments in HUD’s Tenant-Based Rental Assistance program (TBRA) under the Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH). HUD has not been able to perform an estimate of this program as required by the Payment Integrity Information Act (PIIA) of 2019 for the last 8 years. Our objective is to determine whether a sample of housing assistance payments (HAP) in the PIH-TBRA program are proper; if improper, then we will estimate the total improper and unknown payments. 

HUD Can Improve Its Efforts To Meet the National Drug Control Strategy Reporting Requirements

The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) leads and coordinates the Nation’s drug policy to improve the health and lives of the American people, including the development and implementation of the National Drug Control Strategy (the Strategy).  ONDCP evaluates the effectiveness of national drug control policy efforts, the Strategy’s goals and objectives, and each National Drug Control Program Agency’s program-level measures.  On February 27, 2024, after determining the U.S.

Assessing the completeness of HUD’s subaward data on USAspending.gov

HUD OIG is auditing HUD’s subaward data reported in USAspending.gov. Doing this work will provide the current condition and challenges faced by grantees to comply with subaward data reporting requirements. Our audit objective is to determine the if prime grant recipients of HUD funding reported all of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA) requirements for their subawards on USASpending.gov, including the amount of the subaward and a description of the products or services provided.


 

Fiscal Year 2023 Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 Penetration Test Evaluation Report

We have completed our fiscal year (FY) 2023 Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA) penetration test and vulnerability assessment.  The objective of this evaluation was to test and verify the technical implementation of a limited set of security controls on judgmentally selected U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) information systems and applications.

Assessing the completeness of HUD’s subaward data on USAspending.gov

HUD OIG is auditing HUD’s subaward data reported in USAspending.gov. Doing this work will provide the current condition and challenges faced by grantees to comply with the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA) subaward data reporting requirements. Our audit objective is to determine if prime grant recipients of HUD funding reported all of the FFATA requirements for their subawards on USASpending.gov, including the amount of the subaward and a description of the products or services provided.

Fiscal Year 2021 Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) Evaluation Security Technical Testing Topic Brief

The Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA) requires all federal agencies to conduct independent security technical verification testing on a sampling of information systems annuallyIn conjunction with our fiscal year 2021 FISMA evaluation (2021-OE-0001), we conducted a targeted security testing asses

Fiscal Year 2021 Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) Evaluation Report

The Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA) directs Inspectors General to conduct an annual evaluation of the agency information security program.  FISMA, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) establish information technology (IT) security guidance and standards for Federal agencies.