Revised EIV Notice H 2013-06 Issued
Housing Notice 2013-06, Enterprise Income Verification (EIV) System, was issued, March 12, 2013. This Notice supersedes Notices H 2011-21, H 2008-03, H 2009-20, and H 2010-10. The notice is available here.
The revised Notice:
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Adds Section 811 Project Rental Assistance Demonstration units under a Rental Assistance Contract to the Applicability section (Section II).
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Includes a description of the active link found in the Identity Verification Report Statistics. The resulting report identifies the number of households represented as not-verified (verification in process) (Section VII).
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Modifies the name of the No Income Report to No Income Reported by HHS or SSA (Section VII).
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Includes a description of the new report No Income Reported on 50059 and discusses how the report should be used (Section VII).
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Identifies the New Hires report as a Verification Report along with its previous location in the Income Reports section of the system (Section VII).
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Allows a violation for an owner/agent not having access and/or not using the EIV system in its entirety to be identified and the penalty to be assessed outside the scope of the MOR (Section XI).
Smoke-Free Housing
October 26, 2012, HUD issued Housing Notice 2012-22 encouraging Owners and Management Agents to implement smoke-free housing policies in one or all of the properties they own or manage. The notice is available here.
HUD has also issued a Smoke-Free Toolkit that can be used by Owner/Agents and Residents. This Smoke-Free Housing Toolkit is provided by HUD in partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Lung Association, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. They are designed to assist owners/management agents and residents of assisted multi-family housing who want safer and healthier homes. A copy of the owner/agent toolkit is available here and the resident toolkit is available here.