Finding Text
Criteria or Specific Requirement: Eligibility
The PHA must do the following:
(1) Reexamine family income and composition at least once every 12 months and adjust the tenant rent and housing assistance payment as necessary using the documentation from third-party verification (24 CFR sections 960.253, 960.257, and 960.259).
Condition: The Agency did not have adequate internal controls designed to ensure LIPH eligibility requirements were being met for City and County.
Questioned Costs: Unable to determine.
Context: Out of the 60 files tested, 2 were not reexamined timely in accordance with the compliance requirements.
Cause: The Agency failed to provide adequate monitoring and oversight to ensure compliance with HUD rules and regulations, as well as their administrative policy.
Effect: The Agency is not in compliance with federal regulations regarding the recertification of household circumstances within 12 months.
Repeat Finding: Yes, 2022-007
Recommendation: We recommend management should designate one person to review a sample of the files that have been recertified each month. The purpose of the review is to determine if the tenant files were prepared in accordance with internal policies and verify the compliance deficiencies have been corrected.
Views of Responsible Officials: There is no disagreement with the audit finding.