7-10 Key Requirements

• A. To ensure that assisted tenants pay rents commensurate with their ability to pay, tenants must supply information requested by the owner or HUD for use in an interim recertification of family income and composition in accordance with HUD requirements. All tenants must notify the owner when:

  1. A family member moves out of the unit;

  2. The family proposes to move a new member into the unit;

NOTE: At a minimum, owners must apply screening criteria for drug abuse and other criminal activity, including State sex offender registration, and use of the EIV Existing Tenant Search to persons proposed to be added to the household, including live-in aides. (See paragraph 7-11 B.1 and paragraph 4-7 B.5 for more information.) The owner must make sure that the person also discloses and provides verification of his or her SSN. (See Chapter 3, Paragraph 3-9 for more information on SSN disclosure requirements.)

NOTE: See Paragraphs 7-4 D and 7-4 E for eligibility of adult children after initial occupancy in Section 202/8, Section 202 PRAC, and Section 811 PRAC projects.

3. An adult member of the family who was reported as unemployed on the most recent certification or recertification obtains employment; or

4. The family’s income cumulatively increases by $200 or more per month.

• B. Tenants may request an interim recertification due to any changes occurring since the last recertification that may affect the TTP or tenant rent and assistance payment for the tenant. Changes a tenant may report include the following:

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1. Decreases in income including, but not limited to, loss of employment, reduction in number of hours worked by an employed family member, and loss or reduction of welfare income;

2. Increases in allowances including, but not limited to, increased medical expenses, and higher child care costs; and

3. Other changes affecting the calculation of a family’s annual or adjusted income include, but are not limited to a family member turning 62 years old, becoming a full-time student or, becoming a person with a disability.

• C. Tenants are not required to report when a family member turns 18 years of age between annual recertifications. Tenants must follow the requirements in their lease for reporting changes in the household income. However, if a tenant turns 18 and has not signed the form HUD-9887, the owner must not use the EIV income reports until the form is signed. Owners must address in their policies and procedures notification requirements and timeframes for tenants who turn 18 between annual recertifications to sign the consent forms HUD-9887 and HUD9887-A and/or lease. If the tenant fails to sign the consent form(s) the household is in non-compliance with their lease and assistance to, and the tenancy of, the household may be terminated.

• D. Section 236 and BMIR cooperatives must enforce the interim recertification procedures described in this section only for members who executed occupancy agreements after February 15, 1984. Cooperatives may impose interim recertification requirements on members who executed occupancy agreements prior to February 15, 1984, only if the cooperative amended its by-laws to make such requirements binding on all members or a member voluntarily agreed to include such clauses in his/her occupancy agreement.