Overview
- An internal financial review identified more than 200,000 tenant records with eligibility concerns, including 30,054 listed as deceased and 9,472 with non‑conforming Social Security numbers.
- The analysis covered Tenant-Based Rental Assistance and Project-Based Rental Assistance, tying about $1.5 billion to TBRA issues and roughly $4.3 billion, or 26.4% of PBRA payments, to potential eligibility problems.
- Officials reported concentrations of questionable payments in New York, California, and Washington, D.C., with deceased recipients found in all 50 states.
- Housing authorities, landlords, and contract administrators play key roles in certifying eligibility, a reliance HUD says contributed to process gaps and weakened verification controls.
- HUD reported using data analytics and Treasury matches to flag the payments and said work with the Department of Homeland Security identified thousands of potentially ineligible non‑citizen recipients.