The current balance in the Locc system, according to a file examined by Wired, exceeds $ 100 billion – Money Congress has approved for HUD projects but which has not yet been reduced. Much of this money was reserved to cover assistance to disasters and community development work, according to a source from the agency.
Normally, those who have access to LOCCs need additional treatment and approval to access the system, and most have only “read” access, according to employees in the department.
“Reading / writing is used to execute contracts and subsidies on the side of the LOCC,” explains a person. “He normally has strict banking procedures to do anything with funds. For example, you generally need at least two people to approve all decisions, for example, you would with cashiers in a physical bank. »»
The second system to which the documents indicate that the two HUD DOGE agents have both read and in writing is the HUD Central Accounting and Program System (HUDCAPS), an “integrated management system for section 8 programs under the jurisdiction of the public and Indian housing office”, ” according to to Hud. (Section 8 is a federal program administered by local housing agencies which provide rental assistance, in the form of good, to Millions of low -income families.) This system was a precursor of LOCCs and is currently being progressed, but it is always used to process payment of housing vouchers and contains huge amounts of personal information.
There is currently 2.3 million families receiving housing vouchers In the United States, according to HUD’s own data, but the Hudcaps database contains information on many more individuals because historical data is kept, says a familiar source with the system. Persons postulated for HUD programs such as housing vouchers must submit sensitive personal information, including medical records and personal accounts.
“People entrust these stories to Hud,” said the source. “These are not data in these systems, it is operational confidence.”
Wass, or the Web access security subsystemis the third system to which DOGE has read both and in writing, although only Mirski has access to this system according to the documents examined by Wired. It is used to grant authorizations to other HUD systems. “Most WASSS features consist of looking for information stored in various tables to say in the security subsystem that you are, where you can go and what you can do when you get there,” has a manual said.
“WASS is a request to provision for most, if not to all other HUD systems,” said a HUD source familiar with the systems that are shocked by Mirski’s level of access, because normally HUD employees do not have access to reading, not to mention writing access. “WASS is the system for defining authorizations for all other systems.”
In addition to these three systems, the documents show that Mirski has a reading access alone to two others. One, the integrated disbursement and information system (IDIS), is a national database that follows all HUD programs in progress across the country. (“IDIS has confidential data on the hidden locations of household violence shelters”, says a HUD source, “so even access to read there.”) The other is the financial evaluation of public housing (FASS-PH), a database designed to “measure the financial situation of public housing agencies and assess their ability to provide safe and decent housing.”
