Example – Unintentional Program Violation

A two-income household receives rental assistance payments. One individual works full time, which was fully disclosed during the last recertification. The other has a part-time job, but the work is on an asneeded basis. Because the income earnings were uncertain, small in amount, and infrequent, the tenant misunderstood the requirement to report income and did not report the uncertain income earnings.

3. If the owner determines the tenant knowingly provided inaccurate or incomplete information, and this can be substantiated through documentation, the owner needs to pursue the incident as fraud following the guidance in paragraph 8-18.