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Earned Income Disregard - Section 8

The Earned Income Disregard is a work incentive for Section 8 tenants in the Tenant-Based Voucher Program. It allows families that include certain individuals with disabilities to have 100% of their increased earnings excluded for one year, and 50% of their increased earnings excluded during an additional year, when calculating their Section 8 rent.

NOTE: The regulations at 24CFR5.617 call this provision, "Self-sufficiency incentives for persons with disabilities—Disallowance of increase in annual income." The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is available at: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/.

Eligible families are those that include an individual with disabilities whose income increases as a result of earnings if one of the following situations exists:

· The family member with disabilities was previously unemployed for one or more years prior to employment. (The regulations define "previously unemployed" as: "… a person with disabilities who has earned, in the twelve months previous to employment, no more than would be received for 10 hours of work per week for 50 weeks at the established minimum wage."); or

· The family member with disabilities is participating in any economic self-sufficiency or other job training program; or

· The family member with disabilities has increased earnings during or within six months after receiving assistance, benefits or services under any state program for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) funded under Part A of Title IV of the Social Security Act, as determined by the responsible entity in consultation with the local agencies administering temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) and Welfare-to-Work (WTW) programs. The TANF program is not limited to monthly income maintenance, but also includes such benefits and services as one-time payments, wage subsidies and transportation assistance —provided that the total amount over a six-month period is at least $500.

The Earned Income Disregard is limited to a lifetime 48-month period starting from the initial 12 month exclusion.

Inapplicability to Initial Eligibility Determination

The disallowance of increases in income as a result of employment of persons with disabilities under this section does not apply for purposes of determining of income eligibility.

Source:

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR): 24CFR5.617

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