JUST THE FAQs MA'AM
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According to FAQ No. 3, this is where (in the Code of Federal Regulations) we find the rules to carry out the law.
What (or where) is 49 CFR Part 24?
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Each notice which the Agency is required to provide under the URA must be sent by certified or registered first-class mail, return receipt requested, or delivered in this way.
What is personally served?
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If the Agency determines that a mobile home is personal property and that it can be relocated to a comparable replacement site, the mobile home owner-occupant is not entitled to this type of a payment.
What is a replacement housing payment (RHP) for the purchase of a replacement mobile home?
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This is what GIN stands for.
What is general information notice?
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This type of government assistance is generally used to purchase edible items and is one type of federal exemption from the household income used to calculate the HUD low-income base for replacement housing.
What are food stamps?
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The answer to FAQ No. 77 tells us that costs for eligible improvements or modifications to a shell structure up to the amount of $10,000 such as the addition of needed bathrooms, room partitions, built-in display cases, etc., may be claimed as this type of non-residential relocation payment.
What is the Reestablishment Payment?
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Whenever a person believes that the Agency has failed to properly consider the person’s application for assistance under the URA, that person has the right to file one of these.
What is an appeal?
200
An eligible 180-day owner-occupant who owns the mobile home and rents the land is eligible for a Purchase Price Differential Payment, a Mortgage Interest Differential Payment, an Incidentals Expense Payment, a Moving Expense Payment, as well as this type of payment.
What is a Rental Assistance/Down Payment Assistance Payment?
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No relocation payment received by a displaced person under the federal regulations shall be considered as this for the purposes of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.
What is income?
200
According to appendix A regarding the term “functionally equivalent”, while the comparable dwelling need not possess every feature of the displacement dwelling, these kinds of features must be present.
What are “the principal features”?
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Per FAQ No. 104, any eligible displaced person whose rental assistance payment is determined to be zero may, at the discretion of the agency, qualify for downpayment assistance of up to this amount.
What is $5,250?
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A person who has occupied the property solely for the purpose of obtaining assistance under the Uniform Act is definitely not one of these.
What is a displaced person eligible for relocation benefits?
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The Price Differential Payment for a 180-day owner-occupant of a mobile home shall be computed on the basis of this if a comparable replacement mobile home site is not available.
What is the reasonable cost of a conventional comparable replacement dwelling?
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person seeking relocation payments shall, as a condition of eligibility, certify to this.
What is certify to their U.S. Citizenship or otherwise lawful presence in the United States?
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When explaining this type of payment available to 180-day homeowner occupants, appendix A states that it is commonly known as the “buydown.”
What is the Mortgage Interest Differential Payment or MIDP?
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From FAQ No. 47 – This is what the agency must do to the “90-day clock” if the original comparable replacement dwelling has been sold (or rented).
What is keep it running without interruption? However, if the original comparable dwelling is no longer available, the agency must assure itself that equally comparable dwellings are still available in the same price range.
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These costs, defined in 24.2 as expenses for electricity, gas, other heating and cooking fuels, water and sewer, are added to the displacee’s existing monthly rent to compute the base monthly rental for the displacement dwelling.
What are utility costs?
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When the partial acquisition of a mobile home park leaves too few mobile homes in place to economically support the continuing operation of the park, the Agency can do this.
What is to determine that the remaining mobile homes must be moved as a direct result of the project?
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In order to avoid duplication of payment for business relocations, every effort must be made to identify and resolve these types of issues prior to, or at the time of, the appraisal of the property.
What are realty/personalty issues?
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Although persons who are not permanently displaced from their homes are not eligible for relocation assistance under the URA regulations, appendix A does require that they be reimbursed for these if they are required to move temporarily as a result of the project.
What are all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with the temporary relocation?
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Even though persons not lawfully present in the United States who are occupying a dwelling are not counted as a part of the family for the purposes of selecting the comparable dwelling, the agency must use this when calculating the Replacement Housing Payment.
What is the unlawful occupants’ income?
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The Federal Agency funding the project may waive any federal relocation requirement as long as it is 1) not required by law and 2) the waiver will not do this to an owner or displaced person.
What is reduce any assistance or protection provided to an owner or displaced person.
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This is the only replacement housing payment for which a tenant of both the mobile home and the land is eligible.
What is the same rental assistance/down payment assistance payment for which a 90-day tenant of a conventional home is eligible?
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In an effort to discourage global settlements, which are not consistent with the law, the federal regulations require that a displacing agency shall not propose or request that a displaced person waive his or her rights or entitlements to these.
Q: What are relocation assistance and benefits?
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As long as it is capable of providing DS&S living accommodations, is purchased and occupied as the ‘‘primary’’ place of residence; and is located on a purchased or leased site with all necessary utilities for functioning as a housing unit, this item can be considered a replacement dwelling for the purposes of claiming an RHP.
What is a recreational vehicle (RV)?
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