2010 Operating Cost Adjustment Factors (OCAFs) Operating Cost Adjustment Factors (OCAF) Published http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/mfh/mfhsec8.cfm The Operating Cost Adjustment Factors (OCAF) for 2010 were published in the November 12, 2009 Federal Register. The factors are effective February 11, 2010. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:05:00 GMT http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/mfh/mfhsec8.cfm HUD Handbook 4350.1 http://www.hud.gov/offices/adm/hudclips/handbooks/hsgh/4350.1/index.cfm The appropriate changes and/or revisions to Chapter 6, Conducting Management Reviews, have not completed the required clearance process. To give sufficient time for the publication and to review the changes and/or revisions, implementation is extended until March 1, 2010. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:04:00 GMT http://www.hud.gov/offices/adm/hudclips/handbooks/hsgh/4350.1/index.cfm No Social Security Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) for 2010 http://www.hud.gov/utilities/intercept.cfm?www.socialsecurity.gov/cola With consumer prices down over the past year, monthly Social Security and Supplemental Security Income benefits for more than 57 million Americans will not automatically increase in 2010. This will be the first year without an automatic Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) since they went into effect in 1975. For additional information about the 2010 COLA, go to www.socialsecurity.gov/cola. Information about Medicare changes for 2010, when available, will be found at www.Medicare.gov. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:03:00 GMT http://www.hud.gov/utilities/intercept.cfm?http://www.socialsecurity.gov/cola Reissuance and Clarification of Housing Notice on Implementation of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) http://www.hud.gov/offices/adm/hudclips/index.cfm Notice H08-07, Implementation of the Violence Against Women and Justice Department Reauthorization Act of 2005 for the Multifamily Project-Based Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program, has been reissued as Notice H09-15. The Act does not just protect women. For a copy of the Notice go to http://www.hud.gov/offices/adm/hudclips/index.cfm Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:02:00 GMT http://www.hud.gov/offices/adm/hudclips/index.cfm Refinement of Income and Rent Determination Requirements in Public and Assisted Housing Programs http://www.hud.gov/utilities/intercept?http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/pdf/E9-24809.pdf Implementation of Enterprise Income Verification – Proposed Amendments, Proposed Rule Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:01:00 GMT http://www.hud.gov/utilities/intercept?http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/pdf/E9-24809.pdf Attention: Multifamily EIV Users http://www.hud.gov/utilities/intercept.cfm?http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/mfh/rhiip/eiv/securityawareness.pdf Enterprise income verification (EIV) Security awareness training questionnaires for multifamily housing programs. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.hud.gov/utilities/intercept.cfm?http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/mfh/rhiip/eiv/securityawareness.pdf