The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of the Inspector General called for improvements in the servicing of Home Equity Conversion Mortgage loans, particularly in detecting and reporting fraud, after auditors discovered certain advance payments that were made after the borrowers were reported to have died. Although most of the suspicious payments were due to posting errors, some transactions raised red flags, the IG report said. There was no evidence that servicers had sent those potentially fraudulent cases to HUD for further action, it added. The anomalies were found during a routine OIG audit of the HECM program, which insures ...