Federal Reports

We performed a corrective action verification review of the actions taken by the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae) to implement the recommendations cited in Audit Report 2016-KC-0002, issued September 21, 2016. The HUD Handbook places the responsibility on HUD’s Office of Inspector General to perform selected corrective action verifications of significant audit recommendations when final actions have been completed. Our audit objectives were to verify that Ginnie Mae had implemented the corrective actions from the report that (1) established a maximum time during which single-family loans could remain pooled without insurance and (2) established a process for requiring removal of pooled loans that remained uninsured after that time. We found Ginnie Mae established a maximum time during which single-family loans could remain pooled without insurance and established a process for requiring removal of pooled loans that remained uninsured after that time. However, the loan-matching process used by Ginnie Mae did not ensure that pooled loans would be insured by an agency of the Federal Government as required by the Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS) Guide. The process matched pooled loans to agency insurance files but was not adequately designed to cure unmatched loans within the timeframes established in the MBS Guide. As a result, at least 3,206 pooled loans with a principal balance of at least $903 million were not matched to agency insurance data files before the certification date. We recommend that Ginnie Mae update and synchronize its procedures. The updates should include notifications that provide issuers with unmatched loans adequate time to take corrective action to comply with the requirements of the MBS Guide.

Using a risk-based, tiered approach in developing this work plan to best focus our limited resources, AIE will initiate work in nine focus areas in 2023-2024, including oversight of IIJA, IRA and other supplemental funding provided to the DOI.

We reviewed the deaths of five individuals in custody reported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the deaths of five individuals in custody reported by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in fiscal year 2021. We found that no underlying systemic factors, policies, or processes played a role in the deaths of 9 of these 10 individuals and that both components reported their deaths to the Office of Inspector General as required. We were unable to evaluate the remaining individual’s death due to an ongoing criminal investigation

During our unannounced inspection of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Port Isabel Service Processing Center (Port Isabel) in Los Fresnos, Texas, we found that Port Isabel complied with standards for the voluntary work program, access to legal services, and medical care for detainees.