Submitting OIG:
Report Description:
This interim report is part of an ongoing audit to determine the extent the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is meeting disaster survivors’ transitional shelter needs after the California wildfires and Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria in 2017. We determined that FEMA does not require disaster survivors to notify the agency when they vacate hotels participating in the Transitional Sheltering Assistance (TSA) program, thus allowing the hotels to continue to bill FEMA for unoccupied rooms. Because FEMA is unaware when disaster survivors vacate the hotels, the agency does not know the magnitude of unnecessary hotel charges. Consequently, FEMA could not account for associated TSA payments it may have paid since August 2017, related to the 2017 hurricane season and California wildfires.
Date Issued:
Thursday, March 28, 2019
Agency Reviewed / Investigated:
Submitting OIG-Specific Report Number:
OIG-19-37
Component, if applicable:
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Location(s):
United States
Type of Report:
Audit
Number of Recommendations:
0
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OIG-19-37-Mar19.pdf | 1.63 MB |
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