Finding 1174094 (2024-002)

Material Weakness Repeat Finding
Requirement
N
Questioned Costs
-
Year
2024
Accepted
2026-02-18

AI Summary

  • Core Issue: The Housing Authority lacks current pension plan documentation, preventing a review of funding accuracy.
  • Impacted Requirements: Unable to assess coverage, funding amounts, and employee contributions due to missing information.
  • Recommended Follow-Up: Obtain the current pension plan from the provider and review all related payments to ensure proper funding.

Finding Text

2024-002 Pension Criteria: The Housing Authority should have pension plan documentation available to be reviewed. Condition: The Housing Authority could not provide us with the current pension plan so we were unable to determine if the pension was correctly funded. Question Cost: Unknown Effect: We were unable to determine who was covered by the pension plan, the amount the Authority was funding and the amount that the employees should be contributing. Cause: Lack of documentation. Recommendation: We recommend the Housing Authority obtain a copy of the current pension plan from their pension provider and review payments made by the authority and it’s employs to determine if the pension has been correctly funded.

Corrective Action Plan

Finding #2: PENSION Corrective Action: Lee’s Summit Housing Authority (LSHA) contacted Empower, the previous administrator of LSHA retirement to roll-over all remaining funds to Housing Authority Retirement Trust (HART) which had been approved by the Board of Commissioners in 2023. Final transfer of funds is scheduled for February 2026. HART was contacted and all new employees were correctly entered and all previous employees were reconciled and any back-payments were submitted to get all employees current and correct.

Categories

Allowable Costs / Cost Principles

Other Findings in this Audit

  • 1174093 2024-001
    Material Weakness Repeat
  • 1174095 2024-003
    Material Weakness Repeat

Programs in Audit

ALN Program Name Expenditures
14.871 SECTION 8 HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHERS $6.34M
14.872 PUBLIC HOUSING CAPITAL FUND $109,773
14.850 PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING $43,590