What is RHIIP?
The Rental Housing Integrity Improvement Project (RHIIP) is a priority
Secretarial initiative designed to reduce income and rent errors
and improper payments in the administration of both public housing
and Section 8 programs.
RHIIP is a comprehensive strategy to correct program errors in
HUD's high-risk rental housing subsidy programs and related management
control deficiencies. HUD's objective is to ensure that the correct
amount of assistance goes to the people who need it.
Income and Rent Problem
The 2001 Policy Development and Research (PD&R) Quality
Control for Rental Assistance Subsidies Determinations study
(QC study), found that 60 percent of all rent and subsidy calculations
contained some type of error. The most common sources of errors
are:
- Calculation errors
- Failure to verify income/expenses
- Failure to use UIV tools & techniques
- Incorrect income and deduction amounts (i.e., earned income,
pension income, and medical allowances)
Onsite tenant interviews, file review, and independent third-party
income verifications were conducted by an independent contractor
for a nationally representative sample of families who received
public housing and Section 8 HCV assistance.
Successive QC studies
HUD will conduct successive QC studies to establish estimates of
error, provide periodic performance indicators, and verify the effectiveness
of HUD's corrective actions.
Preliminary results from the first of these follow-up studies were
reported in the December
19, 2003 Inspector General's Audit Report under Note 17 (Adobe
PDF). They showed that HUD had exceeded its error reduction goals
for FY 2003.
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