Credit: The White House
A bombshell federal report has blown the lid off yet another massive Biden-era taxpayer scandal — this time inside the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
According to HUD’s own Fiscal Year 2025 Agency Financial Report, more than $5 billion in rental assistance payments during the final year of the Biden regime were flagged as “questionable” or improper, exposing systemic failures, nonexistent oversight, and breathtaking incompetence at the federal level.
Among the most jaw-dropping revelations: tens of thousands of payments were made to people who were already DEAD, and thousands more went to recipients who may not have even been eligible to receive taxpayer-funded housing assistance at all, the New York Post first reported.
Buried in the HUD report is a stunning admission that federal systems failed to stop payments to 30,054 deceased individuals who were either still listed as active tenants or continued receiving rental assistance after their deaths.
HUD officials acknowledged that only after cross-checking Treasury databases did they finally identify the scope of the problem — meaning for years, taxpayers were unknowingly footing the bill for people who no longer exist.
“[Over] 30,000 dead people receiving housing isn’t an accident — it was systematic fraud by Biden and the left. HUD will hold those who defrauded the American taxpayers accountable,” HUD Secretary Scott Turner wrote on X.
According to the report:
HUD used an automation that compared a U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) database to HUD’s records to automatically flag deceased tenants still listed in rental assistance programs. Using the automation, HUD identified 30,054 deceased tenants either actively enrolled in a rental assistance program at the time of the analysis or who had received assistance after they died. Using the automation and the Treasury database allows HUD to better confirm that taxpayer money is going where it should and take actions to keep it from going where it shouldn’t.
The report further states that $5.8 billion in rental assistance payments were flagged for serious eligibility concerns, including:
Payments tied to incomplete or missing tenant documentation
Inability to verify citizenship or lawful eligibility
Weak or nonexistent cross-checks with federal databases
Years-long failures in internal controls and oversight
HUD officials acknowledged that thousands of recipients may not have been eligible non-citizens, yet payments continued to flow anyway.
According to the report:
HUD reviewed the FY 2024 rental assistance payments total of $50.4 billion, which identified payments to deceased tenants and to tenants with invalid social security numbers.
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For the first time, HUD evaluated all 4+ million tenant records and the registration status of more than 21,000 recipient organizations, uncovering eligibility issues affecting more than 200,000 tenants and identifying questionable payments totaling $5.8 billion (including approximately $4.3 billion (26.4%) of PBRA payments and $1.5 billion (4.4%) of TBRA payments).
Even more damning, HUD’s leadership openly admitted in the report that financial controls deteriorated under the Biden administration, creating “material weaknesses” in governance, data integrity, and payment oversight.
The report describes:
Absent or ineffective internal controls
Poor governance structures
Lack of enforcement priorities
Failure to stop improper payments in real time
These failures directly enabled billions of dollars to be wasted, money that could have gone to American citizens, veterans, seniors, and the truly needy.
HUD officials told the Post that a “large concentration” of these questionable rental assistance funds flowed to Democrat-run strongholds, including:
New York
California
Washington, D.C.
Yet payments to deceased recipients were found in all 50 states, proving the rot was nationwide.
“For four years, the left abused American taxpayers, and now light is exposing darkness from Minnesota to D.C. to N.Y. to California,” Turner wrote on X.
In a statement to the Post, Turner said, “A massive abuse of taxpayer dollars not only occurred under President [Joe] Biden’s watch, but was effectively incentivized by his administration’s failure to implement strong financial controls resulting in billions worth of potential improper payments.”
He added, “HUD will continue investigating the shocking results and will take appropriate action to hold bad actors accountable. Additionally, the Department is advancing efforts made under President Trump’s first administration to strengthen program integrity and ensure taxpayer-funded assistance serves the vulnerable communities it was intended for.”
More from the New York Post:
The around 11% of taxpayer dollars from HUD went to more than 200,000 possibly ineligible tenants — of whom 29,715 (around 14%) were dead, 9,472 (4%) were non-citizens and 165,393 (82%) were receiving sums that exceeded the threshold for assistance in their geographic region, particularly in New Orleans and other large metro areas.
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HUD officials faulted the Biden administration for a directive “to push funding out the door with minimal oversight” as well as rent assistance programs placing “substantial trust and responsibility in these non-federal entities … to accurately assess tenant eligibility.”
Now, HUD will have to reach out to the public housing authorities and other entities to confirm the extent of the fraud — and either pause or revoke funding. Officials will also make criminal referrals when warranted.
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Between October 2023 and September 2024, $33 billion was spent on Tenant-Based Rental Assistance (TBRA) for more than 4 million households and $16 billion was spent on Project-Based Rental Assistance (PBRA) — all of which the audit reviewed.
The more than 200,000 tenants were flagged for eligibility issues as part of the $1.5 billion in TBRA payments from HUD, while roughly $4.3 billion (26.4%) of all PBRA payments also had eligibility issues.
You can read the 118-page report below:
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