Overview
- An internal HUD financial review identified about $5.8 billion of nearly $50 billion in FY2024 rental assistance as potentially improper.
- More than 200,000 tenant records were flagged, including roughly 30,000 listed as deceased, about 9,500 potential non-citizens, and over 165,000 receiving aid above local thresholds.
- HUD reported approximately $1.5 billion in questionable Tenant-Based Rental Assistance and about $4.3 billion in Project-Based Rental Assistance, equal to roughly 26% of PBRA payments.
- Officials said suspect payments were concentrated in New York, California and Washington, D.C., with payments to deceased recipients appearing in all 50 states.
- HUD plans outreach to public housing authorities and contractors, with potential pauses or revocations of funding and criminal referrals after confirming fraud; a 2022 HUD OIG audit had warned of weak antifraud controls.