HAR §17-2028-56. Interim rent adjustment

(a) The authority may adjust a family’s rent between reexamination if a tenant reports a change in family income. However, adjustments to rent shall not be made for covered families with reduced welfare benefit payments resulting from welfare sanctions for noncompliance with welfare self-sufficiency and work activity requirements. Adjustments, reflecting a lower rent, shall be made effective on the first of the month following the month the report was made. The authority will not process the rent adjustment if it confirms that the decrease in income will last less than thirty calendar days. (b) A tenant who has obtained a decrease in rent under this section shall report all income increases to the authority which occur prior to the next reexamination within ten business days of when tenant knows the increase will occur, and rent shall be readjusted accordingly. Any increase in rent shall be effective on the first day of the second month following the month in which the change occurred. (c) A tenant who fails to report any increase in income after obtaining a decrease in rent under this section shall be subject to a back rent charge retroactive to the month in which the rent increase should have been made pursuant to section 17-2028-58. (d) A tenant shall report to the authority any changes in family composition. Rent adjustment shall be made between reexaminatjons when a person with income is added to the family and the rent adjustment shall be effective on the first of the second month following the approved inclusion. LEt f 7/21/05; am and comp 9/4/07; am and comp MAY24 21314 1 (Auth: HRS §356D-4, 356D-13) (Imp: 24 C.F.R. §5.6l5, 960.257, 966.4; HRS §356D-4, 356D-13, 356D-3l) 2028-36 ‘1fl’ §17-2028-57