U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Housing Voucher Cluster (Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers AL # 14.871)
Material Weakness
2023-001 Special Tests – Reasonable Rent
Recommendation: We recommend the Authority enhance internal controls to ensure internal controls over the Reasonable Rent and other grant compliance requirements are established to ensure compliance is maintained.
Plan of Action: The Authority agrees with this finding. Prior to audit, the Authority had begun taking steps to correct this issue after an internal audit of tenant files determined that Rent Reasonableness documentation was missing. The steps that have been take are:
1. Employees were made aware of the issue, and training was provided to ensure that rent reasonable was reviewed and documented.
2. The use of a check list was developed to ensure the rent reasonableness steps and documentation has been performed and included in the tenant file.
Going forward additional steps to ensure correction of the finding have been added. Two lines have been added to the check list. The first line is for the Eligibility Specialist to initial that all steps in the checklist have been performed and documented. The next line is for the HCV Specialist to initial that they have received the file and reviewed it to make sure that all steps of the checklist have been completed and documented within the file.
Date of implementation: July 13, 2023