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Welfare Benefits as Unearned Income

If none of your Welfare Assistance cash benefit is designated specifically for shelter and utilities, then the benefit amount you receive is simply added to your other unearned income, if any, in calculating your family's total unearned income.

Welfare Benefits for Housing

If, however, a portion of your cash benefit is designated for shelter and utilities, and if it is subject to adjustment by the welfare assistance agency in accordance with the actual cost of shelter and utilities, then the amount used in calculating your unearned income is not necessarily the amount you actually receive. Rather, your PHA counts as unearned income the maximum amount that the welfare assistance agency could in fact allow your family for shelter and utilities plus the amount of the cash benefit not designated for shelter.

If a portion of your welfare cash benefit is designated for shelter and utilities, WorkWORLD asks you to enter both the maximum monthly amount that you could receive and the monthly amount you actually receive.

The maximum amount you could receive is used in calculating your total unearned income. (The amount you actually receive is used in calculating your Total Tenant Payment.)

In order to find out the maximum amount that you could receive, you may have to contact your welfare agency. Note that a further complication arises from the fact that the "maximum amount" referred to above is the maximum for your family's situation, not necessarily the maximum based on the welfare department's "standard of need." If your cash benefit is some percentage of the standard of need (say, for example, 90%), then the maximum amount for shelter would be 90% of the maximum based on the standard of need. (Your benefit is said to be "ratably reduced.")

For the question about the maximum, you should enter the "ratably reduced" maximum if your cash benefit has been reduced from the standard of need.

Source:

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR): 24CFR5.609(b)(6)

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