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FHFA OIG Finds Scorecard-Based Compensation Process Insufficient

April 1, 2016
The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s oversight of GSE compensation based on scorecard performance was found to be “insufficiently robust,” according to the FHFA’s Office of Inspector General, but the agency disagreed. A recently released report found that the agency accepted the GSEs’ annual at-risk compensation proposals without any verification or challenge for accuracy. The OIG said while in 2011 the FHFA said it had adopted internal controls to test and verify procedures to improve the oversight of compensation for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac executives; it learned that the FHFA discontinued that system in 2012 after adopting a new GSE executive compensation structure.
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