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119-hr-8489119th CongressWALLET

HUD Payment Integrity and Accountability Act of 2026

Sponsored By: Representative Meuser, Daniel [R-PA-9]

Introduced

Summary

Stronger improper payment testing and fraud oversight across HUD housing programs. This bill would require HUD to produce a compliant improper payment assessment for both project-based and tenant-based rental assistance and to tighten fraud detection for HUD programs and related Community Development and Disaster Recovery funds.

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  • Families and tenants: Tenant households in HUD programs would see expanded eligibility verification and payment testing as HUD must test and report improper payment estimates for Tenant-Based Rental Assistance and Project-Based Rental Assistance.
  • Owners, landlords, and local housing agencies: A year-over-year rise of 100 percent or more in payments or in the number of assisted providers in a ZIP Code would force Inspector General notification. The Inspector General would audit programs or areas that grow by at least 400 percent over five years.
  • HUD operations and oversight: HUD would need to include a compliant assessment in its FY2027 agency financial report by December 1, 2027. The Inspector General would pre-validate HUD’s methodology, run a fraud risk assessment covering about $50.0 billion in annual rental assistance, and perform comprehensive data draws to reconcile payments and Do Not Pay matches.

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Stronger fraud checks for housing aid

This bill would require HUD to include an improper-payment estimate for tenant- and project-based rental help in its FY2027 financial report by Dec 1, 2027. The HUD Inspector General would pre-check the Secretary’s methods 180 days before that deadline and run a separate fraud-risk review of about $50 billion a year in rental assistance. The IG would pull data from HUD and contractor systems, report barriers to matching with Treasury’s Do Not Pay list, and send results to two Senate oversight committees. The Secretary would also have to tell the IG within 60 days when housing or CDBG payments or the number of paid providers in a ZIP code rise more than 100% in one year, and the IG would flag and audit programs or places that grew 400% over five years starting within two years of enactment.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Meuser, Daniel [R-PA-9]

PA • R

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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