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Economic Self-Sufficiency Program - Section 8

Definition

HUD defines an Economic Self-Sufficiency Program as: "Any program designed to encourage, assist, train, or facilitate the economic independence of HUD-assisted families or to provide work for such families. These programs include programs for job training, employment counseling, work placement, basic skills training, education, English proficiency, workfare, financial or household management, apprenticeship, and any program necessary to ready a participant for work (including a substance abuse or mental health treatment program), or other work activities."

Relevance for Section 8 Benefits

If you or your family receive Tenant-Based Section 8 assistance, and you or anyone in your family also receives welfare assistance, then the recipient(s) of welfare assistance may have to participate in an Economic Self-Sufficiency Program in order to receive the welfare assistance.

If a welfare recipient fails to comply with the requirement to participate, then the welfare agency may sanction the recipient by reducing or eliminating the cash benefit.

If the welfare recipient was part of a family receiving Tenant-Based Section 8 assistance at the time of the sanction, then the amount of the welfare reduction may still be counted as Unearned Income for calculating the rent and utilities that the family must pay. See Welfare Benefit Reduced as Sanction for details.

See Also:

Welfare Benefit as Unearned Income

Welfare Assistance & Section 8

Tenant Rent

Family Rent to Owner

Source:

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR): 24CFR5.603 & 615

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Section 8 Housing Overview

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