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Determining Student Eligibility for the Section 8 Program
According to HUD, an individual under 24 years of age and enrolled in an institution of higher education is ineligible for Section 8 benefits unless the student meets at least one of the following six preliminary exceptions:
Capping the Child Care Expense Allowance
Under the Section 8 program, tenants may be eligible for the child care expense allowance, which allows for reasonable out-of-pocket, unreimbursed child care costs for the care of a child under 13 years of age to be deducted (dollar-for-dollar) from the household income, potentially resulting in a lower tenant rent.
To qualify, the child care must be necessary to, among other things, enable a household member to work. In such cases, the annualized child care expense may be deducted from the applicable household member’s annual employment income.