EIV Training and Outreach for Multifamily Housing Programs Web Page

EIV 7.0 (June 26, 2007) Release

On June 27-28, 2007, an EIV instructional course on the 7.0 Enterprise Income Verification (EIV) system for Multifamily Housing Programs was conducted by HUD staff via Webcast. The two-day instructional course was targeted to owners and management agents (O/As) responsible for performing required re-certification of tenant income and contract administrators (CAs) responsible for monitoring and overseeing O/A operations. Guidance and information on how to read and use the tenant Income Report and the Income Discrepancy Report, as well as how to incorporate EIV into your day-to-day operations was provided on day two of the two-day EIV instructional course.

Although made clear in materials, we want to emphasize that O/As are not to take the income data in EIV and use it to calculate a tenant’s income for rent calculation purposes without getting current (dated within the last 120 days) income documentation (pay stubs, Social Security benefit letter, etc) from the tenant. Instructional materials for day two, Section III. Income Information Reports and Section IV. Third Party Verification Requirement, explain, in part, how to 1) identify a valid income discrepancy between tenant-provided and third party income information, and 2) resolve valid tenant income discrepancies; this is also illustrated through skits which can be viewed on the EIV satellite broadcast. Course materials and topics included:

• Welcome
• Security
• Getting Access to EIV
• EIV User Administration
• Using EIV

EIV 8.0 (December 7, 2007) and 8.1 (May 09, 2008) Releases.

A follow-up EIV instructional course is scheduled to be conducted in July of 2008 to build on the guidance provided in the June 27-28, 2007 EIV instructional course and to discuss new features in EIV for the 8.0 release in December 2007 and the 8.1 release in May 2008. Logistical course information will be posted to this EIV website and communicated through Multifamily’s RHIIP Listserv. We encourage you to sign-up and stay updated on RHIIP-related news.