EID Brochure Overview - OneCPD

Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA), or Supportive Housing
Program (SHP) funds, an adult family member having a disability must meet one of
the three income criteria above.
Disability Defined
Under the HUD and Social Security Administration definitions of disability, a person
must, generally speaking, have a physical, mental or emotional impairment that:
• is expected to be of long, continued, and indefinite duration;
• substantially impedes his or her ability to live independently; and
• is of such a nature that the person’s ability to live independently could be
improved by more suitable housing conditions.
Among the people meeting this definition would be a person who has a
developmental disability and/or a chronic mental illness that seriously limits his or
her ability to live independently and which could be improved by more suitable
housing conditions.
Time Limits
EID may be used for a total of 24 months, but a tenant can receive the benefit over
a 48-month period. The 48-month period begins on the date when the family
member first begins employment and can stop and start along with employment.
For example, a person could start and maintain employment for three months, and
use EID, then stop working. If he or she began working again within 48 months of
the first use of EID, he or she would be able to use EID to fully disregard up to nine
more months of employment income.
How to Calculate EID
The exact EID benefit amount depends on the tenant’s income. Starting from the
base income prior to employment, 100% of any increase in income from work will
be ignored for up to 12 months, and rent will not increase. After those 12 months
have been used, up to 50% of an income increase from work will be ignored for
another 12 months. The benefit starts and stops along with income from
employment.
For families that qualify for EID because a family member with a disability has
gained employment, only the earnings of the individual with disabilities are
excluded from calculating annual income.
Example
• Monthly SSI Income is $590.
• After disability-related adjustments, monthly income counted is $520.
• $520 x 30 percent (maximum allowed by HUD) = rent payment of $156 per
month.
• Tenant gets a job earning $1,000 per month.
• For the first 12 months, this income is “disallowed” and rent does not go up.