HHS and EIV System Computer Matching Temporarily Suspended

Via RHIIP Listserv #352, issued March 17, 2016, HUD advised the industry that the regularly scheduled computer matching between Health and Human Services (HHS) and EIV for March 2016 would not occur as scheduled.  What does this mean for Owners using EIV for income verification purposes?

In essence, this means that the regularly scheduled “sync” between the information in HHS’ databases for new hire information, wage income, and unemployment benefits and what appears in EIV will not be updated in March as originally planned. The RHIIP Listerv did not provide an explanation for the temporary suspension.

This does not mean that information in EIV will be grossly outdated. The last reconciliation of data occurred between the two systems on February 29, 2016. Therefore, this gap in the scheduled data matching should have a minimal impact on the integrity of the EIV data, so long as the suspension is temporary.

During the suspension, owners/agents should resort to third party verification methods for wage and unemployment income sources (as detailed in Appendix 3 of HUD Handbook 4350.3) and continue with this procedure until HUD notifies the industry that the computer matching with HHS has resumed. HUD recommends Owners document the tenant files that have been affected by this outage.  An example of acceptable documentation would be to include a copy of the RHIIP Listserv message in the tenant file.

This suspension will not affect the integrity of the Social Security income information displaying in EIV. Scheduled computer matching between Social Security Administration (SSA) and EIV will continue to occur.