Technical Assistance and Outreach

REAC Enterprise Income Verification (EIV) staff will provide technical assistance and program support to PHAs and HUD Field Offices as needed with the EIV Verification Reports and in addressing issues related to identifying causes of income calculation errors and improper payments.

REAC-EIV is committed to providing PHAs and HUD Field Offices with beneficial, value-added information that will assist in the successful day-to-day operations of PHAs.

REAC-EIV has implemented three initiatives that will:

1. Provide PHAs with technical assistance to reduce improper payments through the use of HUD's Enterprise Income Verification (EIV) system;
2. Improve the integrity of data collected and reported in the Public Housing Information Center (PIC) Reports;
3. Reduce the occurrence of under reporting or misreporting of tenant income

Deceased Tenants Report

The purpose of this Report is to identify tenants reported as deceased in SSA’s Death Master Files. This report will help PHAs to identify households with deceased tenants and follow-up with families to ensure correct household composition, correct rental assistance determinations and that a corrected PHA 50058 was submitted in IMS/PIC. PHAs are required to take the following corrective actions:

1. Housing Choice Voucher program: For deceased single member households or a household where the remaining household member is a live-in aide, PHAs are required to discontinue housing assistance and HAP to the landlord no later than the first of the following month after the month in which the death occurred.
    
2. Public Housing Program: Conduct a home visit to determine if anyone is residing in the unit. (Optional for Section 8 program). If there are unauthorized persons (including a live-in aide) in the unit of a deceased single member household, you must pursue judicial intervention to have them lawfully removed from the unit. You may be found liable for a wrongful eviction if you change the locks on the unit to prevent the unauthorized occupants from entering the unit. Follow your local Tenant and Landlord laws to regain possession of the unit.
    
3. For both programs: To remove the deceased Head of Household from the Deceased Tenants Report, the PHA should complete and successfully submit an updated HUD-50058 to PIC as outlined in the authorized work around.

Identity Verification Report

The purpose of this Report is to reduce the number of overdue annual reexaminations and reduce the number of identity failures resulting from incorrect tenant personal identifiers, such as surname, date of birth and invalid social security numbers. This report will help PHAs to identify households whose current annual re-exam is 14 months or older or that has not been submitted to PIC and household members whose identity cannot be verified by the Social Security Administration. Correct personal identifiers enable the PHA to obtain employment and income information about each family or individual from the EIV system.

Multiple Subsidy Report

The purpose of this Report is to reduce the number of individuals receiving duplicate rental housing assistance within HUD’s rental housing assistance programs. This report will help PHAs identify and follow-up with households and household members that may be receiving duplicate rental housing assistance as evidenced by the individual appearing on a current form HUD-50058 and/or HUD-50059 submitted to HUD systems by PHAs that administer PIH programs and owners and agents of Multifamily Housing programs. This Report will help to ensure that limited affordable housing and federal dollars serve as many eligible families as possible.

Income Validation Tool (IVT)

The purpose of this Tool is to provide a validation of tenant reported wages, unemployment compensation and Social Security benefits reported in IMS/PIC via form HUD-50058.  The IVT displays discrepancies in previously reported amounts of tenant income by comparing the income reported on the HUD-0058 with the income/benefit information received from the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) National Directory of New Hires (NDNH) and the Social Security Administration (SSA) data sharing agreements.

Tenants are required to fully disclose all sources of income at the time of initial application and at regular annual reexaminations. This helps to alert PHAs of potential tenant under reporting or misreporting of income during the past 12 months of the last interim or annual reexamination of family income. Resolving income discrepancies during reexaminations will improve the integrity of tenant reported income and reduce the number of improper subsidy payments, and will ultimately increase the number of families that can participate in HUD’s rental assistance programs while ensuring that limited Federal dollars serve as many families as possible.

Training Webcasts

Before PHAs and HUD staff can access or use the EIV system, they will be required to participate in HUD’s EIV training webcast. This is also a condition of continued EIV access. HUD provides comprehensive training via online webcasts. If you have any questions regarding EIV training, please contact the EIV Coordinator at your local HUD Field Office

View All EIV training webcasts

*Note: EIV training via this site is not applicable to program administrators of Multifamily Housing (MFH) programs. Please visit MFH EIV training for more information on MFH EIV training.

Training Materials for Updated EIV System 9.2.1 Training is available as indicated.

• Presentation Slides