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Known Changes in Income If SAHA verifies an upcoming increase or decrease in income, annual income will be calculated by applying each income amount to the appropriate part of the 12-month period. Example: An employer reports that afull-time employee who has been receiving $6/hour will begin to receive $6.25/hour in the eighth week after the effective date of the reexamination. In such a case SAHA would calculate annual income as follows: ($6/hour x 40 hours x 7 weeks) + ($6.25 x 40 hours x 45 weeks). The family may present information that demonstrates that implementing a change before its effective date would create a hardship for the family. In such cases SAHA will calculate annual income using current circumstances and then require an interim reexamination when the change actually occurs. This requirement will be imposed even if SAHA's policy in Chapter 11 does not require interim reexaminations for other types of changes. Using HUD's Enterprise Income Verification (EIV) to Project Income SAHA is required to use HUD's Enterprise Income Verification (EIV) system in its entirety as a third party source to verify employment and income information, and to reduce administrative subsidy payment errors in accordance with HUD administrative guidance [24 CFR 5.233(a)(2)] effective January 31, 2010, as published at 74 FR 68924, on December 29, 2009. The EIV System is a web-based application, which provides PHAs with employment, wage, unemployment compensation and social security benefit information of tenants who participate in the Public Housing and various Section 8 programs under the jurisdiction of the Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH). This system is available to all PHAs nationwide. Information in EIV is derived from computer matching programs initiated by HUD with the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), for all program participants with valid personal identifying information (name, date of birth (DOB), and social security number (SSN)) reported on the form HUD-50058. SAHA staff is required to review the EIV Income Report of each family before or during mandatory annual and interim reexaminations of family income and/or composition to reduce tenant under reporting of income and improper subsidy payments. EIV is classified as an UIV technique (or automated written third party verification), which helps to identify income sources and/or amounts that the tenant may not have disclosed. This UIV technique in many instances will reduce the need to mail or fax third party verification request forms to an income source. EIV also provides various reports to assist PHAs with the following: a. Identifying tenants whose reported personal identifiers do not match the SSA database; b. Identifying tenants who need to disclose a SSN; c. Identifying tenants whose alternate identification number (Alt ID) needs to be replaced with a SSN; d. Identifying tenants who may not have reported complete and accurate income information; e. Identifying tenants who have started a new job; f. Identifying tenants who may be receiving duplicate rental assistance; g. Identifying tenants who are deceased and possibly continuing to receive rental assistance; iii29iio Page 6-6