TMHA Tenants Must Report Income Changes Timely

Warning! Do not risk losing your Section 8 rental voucher or forfeiting potential escrow account credits. Contact the housing authority as soon as possible to inform us of your income change.

Important: The housing authority has a new procedure for reporting income changes. Tenants are no longer required to take a work form to their employer to complete. The housing authority will either mail or fax the work form directly to your employer. Tenants are responsible for coming to the housing authority office in order to sign the work form authorizing the release of this information. The housing authority will then be responsible for obtaining this information directly from your employer.

In cases where the employer will not provide the information, an alternate verification procedure will need to be attempted. 

If you fail to report a change in income and/or family composition and the housing authority discovers that a change has occurred, you jeopardize having your rental assistance terminated. At the very least, you will have to repay TMHA for assistance amounts you received but were ineligible for. If you end up owing TMHA a debt, you will be provided with a repayment plan, however, if you fail to make your payments according to the plan, your assistance will be terminated.

Additionally, TMHA generally will not approve a move for a tenant who is not in compliance with a repayment agreement.

Lastly, failure to report a change is an act that is inconsistent with the purpose of the FSS Program.

Important: TMHA will shortly be linked to a computer system that will enable us to get income verification information on every Section 8 participant who is employed or receiving unemployment compensation benefits in the state of Ohio. We will be able to identify any discrepancies between what has been reported to the housing authority versus what your employer(s) have been reported to the state of Ohio in regard to the income that you have earned. Therefore, we urge anyone who is employed and has not
reported their income accurately, the time to report it is now. Don't risk what you can lose!