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Alert - SSI/DI Amounts and Annual Income and Expense Changes

If the amount of your Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) cash benefit has changed in this "What-If?" situation, and/or your earned or other unearned income, and/or your expenses, employability investments or PASS amounts, then you probably will have to change your answers to the questions about those annual amounts in the Section 8 part of WorkWORLD.

Explanation

Because your Public Housing Agency (PHA) can choose to determine the annual amounts of your income, expenses, employability investments and PASS amounts in different ways, WorkWORLD can not automatically adjust your annual amounts to reflect changes in the monthly amounts you report in the SSI/DI section of WorkWORLD.

NOTE: Usually, your PHA will simply multiply your monthly amount by 12 to get the annualized amount, and then change that annual amount if your monthly amount changes. But your PHA may choose to use an annual amount that averages out expected small changes in the monthly amounts in order to reduce paperwork.

Another reason why WorkWORLD cannot automatically adjust your annual amounts to be 12 times your answers in the SSI/DI section is a result of the fact that those annualized amounts may include the income and expenses of others in your Section 8 household.

Action Steps

1.           Determine if your SSI or SSDI amount has changed by looking at the SSI/DI Numerical Output.

a.           If you have not already done so, select the Output View:

(1)        By clicking on View, Output on the Main Menu, or

(2)        By holding down the Alt key and pressing V and then O.

b.           Select the SSI/DI Numerical Results:

(1)        By clicking on View, SSI/DI, and then clicking on the Numerical Results tab on the bottom of your screen, OR

(2)        By holding down the Alt key and pressing V, then S and then N.

c.           Compare the numeric results for the SSI and/or SSDI benefit amounts with the amounts for the current situation (or the amounts for the situation on which you based the "What-If?" scenario, if not the current situation.)

2.           Next, determine if the Annual Earned and Unearned Income Amounts, the Annual SSI Amount, or the annual expense, employability or PASS Amounts would change. If the answer is YES for any of them, then:

a.           Select the Input View:

(1)        By clicking on View, Input on the Main Menu, OR

(2)        By holding down the Alt key and pressing V and then I.

b.           Select the Section 8 Questions:

(1)        By clicking on View, Housing on the Main Menu; OR

(2)        By holding down the Alt key and pressing V and then H.

c.           Scroll down to the Unearned Income section and click the answer box for the question: Annual Unearned Income Amount. Enter the correct amount.

d.           If SSI benefits have changed, scroll down to the answer box for the question: Annual SSI Amount. Enter the correct amount.

e.           Scroll down to the Earned Income section and click the answer box for the question: Total Annual Earnings. If the amount has changes, enter the correct amount.

f.            Scroll down to the various Expense, Employability Investment, and PASS Amount questions and check the amounts. If any of the amounts have changed, enter the correct amounts.

3.           Re-check Section 8 Results

a.           Select the Output View:

(1)        By clicking on View, Output on the Main Menu, OR

(2)        By holding down the "Alt" key and pressing "V" and then "O".

b.           Select Text Results:

(1)        By clicking on the Text Results tab at the bottom of your screen, OR

(2)        By holding down the "Alt" key and pressing "T".

c.           Select Numeric Results:

(1)        By clicking on the Numeric Results tab at the bottom of your screen, OR

(2)        By holding down the "Alt" key and pressing "N".

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