Overview
- An internal HUD financial review identified roughly $5.8 billion in questionable payments across fiscal year 2024 rental-assistance programs.
- About 200,000 tenant records were flagged for eligibility concerns, including 30,054 deceased individuals, roughly 9,500 with invalid Social Security numbers, and 165,393 receiving subsidies above local thresholds.
- The analysis found about $1.5 billion in issues within Tenant-Based Rental Assistance and approximately $4.3 billion in Project-Based Rental Assistance, with deceased recipients present in all 50 states.
- HUD used automated checks against U.S. Treasury records and worked with DHS to identify potential non-citizens, emphasizing the findings reflect control gaps and require case-by-case confirmation.
- Secretary Scott Turner said the department will contact public housing authorities, may pause or revoke funding where warranted, and will make criminal referrals in confirmed cases.