IG: FHFA could not document that all senior officials subject to records management training got it when they left the agency. Image: Kristi Blokhin/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffAn inspector general audit has called on the Federal Housing Finance Agency to assure that departing senior officials receive the required training on the handling of official records, after finding that the agency had not carried out recommendations in a 2020 report.
That earlier report had said the agency could not document that it has provided the retired training to all senior agency officials subject to it on their departure, nor to all contractors being also subject to it as they are onboarded. While the FHFA agreed with recommendations to address those findings and the IG had considered it to be responsive, a follow-up compliance review “found a number of deficiencies in FHFA’s implementation of its new procedures.”
For example, a log designed to document that all contractor personnel take records management training within 60 days of onboarding “contains numerous data errors” and the agency could not document that all senior officials subject to records management training when they offboarded received such training, it said.
“The agency office responsible for providing the training said that in some instances senior officials offboarded without completing it despite the agency’s notifying them of the requirement,” it added in reopening the recommendations.
Management said it would carry out the recommendations by the end of the year.
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