HUD Did Not Comply With the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 for FY 2025

Official summary from the Oversight.gov

HUD did not comply with PIIA because it reported an unknown payment estimate for PIH-TBRA and MF-PBRA based on data matching but did not perform enough testing to report compliant improper payment and unknown payment estimates for the programs. As a result, HUD could not effectively implement corrective actions and other OMB requirements for programs above the statutory threshold that are designed to improve payment accuracy. HUD determined that these programs were susceptible to significant improper and unknown payments based on HUD’s own risk assessment. These were HUD’s two largest program expenditures, totaling $55.7 billion in FY 2025. This was the ninth consecutive year HUD has been unable to produce compliant estimates in its PIH-TBRA and MF-PBRA programs. HUD has been noncompliant with improper payment laws for 13 consecutive years. These programs present payment integrity challenges because they entail thousands of program administrators outside of HUD processing large volumes of payments using nonstandarized processes, and supporting documentation needed for testing is not maintained at HUD. The lack of a detailed approach to resolve these systemic challenges has prevente