(Woonsocket, RI) -- The Woonsocket Housing Authority is learning that it does not have to re-pay millions of dollars in federal funding. The Valley Breeze reports the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has made that determination a couple of years after a federal audit found the money was spent on ineligible or unsupported costs. Instead of over three-and-a-half-million dollars, the Woonsocket agency will have to pay back a smaller amount of about twenty-one-thousand. Its executive director tells the newspaper there was no misappropriation of funds, but blamed the issue on poor paperwork and failure to follow federal bidding guidelines.
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