§ 1437f

Citation: § 1437f
Parent Document: Nozzi v. Housing Authority, 806 F.3d 1178 (2015)
Jurisdiction: United States (federal)
Effective Date: 2015-11-30
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/3158630/nozzi-v-housing-authority/ ↗

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To avoid any hardship caused by this change, the
Department of Housing and Urban Development’s
regulations are designed to ensure that beneficiaries have a
one-year period of stable benefits in which to plan for
changes to the payment standard that may adversely affect
their subsidy amount and rent contribution. Each year, the
public housing agency conducts annual examinations of each
beneficiary, usually on the anniversary of the beneficiary’s
entry into the Section 8 program, to verify his continued
eligibility for benefits and to calculate his expected rent
contribution for the current year. 24 C.F.R. § 982.516.
Alterations to a tenant’s benefits may occur due to
circumstantial changes, such as adjustments to the tenant’s
income, family composition, or cost to rent his apartment, but
the regulations limit the discretion of public housing agencies
to lower subsidies based on adjustments to the payment
standards. If the public housing agency decides to lower the
payment standards, it must provide information about the
change to all beneficiaries at their annual reexaminations
following the decision, and must further advise these
beneficiaries that the change will not go into effect until their
following reexamination one year later. See 24 C.F.R.
§ 982.505(c)(3).

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