By Daniel Bagliore

By Daniel Bagliore

Under the Section 8 program, employed residents are required to provide their last four to six consecutive pay stubs to enable the owner/agent to calculate annual employment income.

HUD provides the following conversion schedule to enable the annualization of employment income:

According to HUD, an individual under 24 years of age and enrolled in an institution of higher education is ineligible for Section 8 benefits unless the student meets at least one of the following six preliminary exceptions:

Under the Section 8 program, tenants may be eligible for the child care expense allowance, which allows for reasonable out-of-pocket, unreimbursed child care costs for the care of a child under 13 years of age to be deducted (dollar-for-dollar) from the household income, potentially resulting in a lower tenant rent.

To qualify, the child care must be necessary to, among other things, enable a household member to work. In such cases, the annualized child care expen...

By Daniel Bagliore

Your site may impose a no pets policy or limit the number of pets a tenant may keep in the apartment. However, from time to time, you may receive a request to allow a disabled tenant to keep one or more assistance animals despite your pet restrictions.

According to HUD (FHEO 2020-01), there are two types of assistance animals: