It has been a LONG time since I posted on this blog, and I certainly have NO excuse for that. Well, technically, I could come up with some very good and even believable excuses, but none of them would be good enough as an explanation for ignoring this!
I have had a lot of fun at recent SAHMA meetings and hope that all of you have been able to participate in the one in your state. I know that there are still a handful left and I am looking forward to FL and TN! This will be the first time I have been a participant in the TN SAHMA meeting and I can’t wait to meet everyone up there.
I did have a reason for this post, so let me get to it. I just recently worked with a manager completing retroactive 50059s for a resident who has a household member that did not report income all the way back to 2003! As you know, HUD will only permit us to collect subsidy paid in error for five years, so there are 4 additional years that this household should have been receiving NO subsidy and paying market rent and they weren’t. In addition, there was signed documentation from the household member in question EVERY year indicating that they had NO INCOME!
After receiving an income discrepancy, the community manager did a third party verification and received income amounts since 2003 and determined that this resident should have been paying market rent the entire term of their residency. This is DEFINITELY a case to take to the Office of Inspector General. Since you are not permitted to go retroactive more than five years, let OIG do the work for you.
I’m anxiously awaiting to hear what OIG says and how they will pursue this case. Stay tuned for more information as we recieve it. In the meantime, take heart that while EIV is a LOT of extra work…it is EFFECTIVE and is helping in some instances!