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History Lessons
100
This is the kind of payment an eligible 90 day occupant may claim under Section 24.402 when he or she leases DS&S replacement housing.
What is a "RAP" (rental assistance payment) or rent supplement?
100
Under Sec. 24.208 - "Aliens not lawfully present in the United States" - each person seeking relocation payments or relocation advisory assistance SHALL, as a condition of eligibility, certify this.
What is certify that he or she is either a citizen or national of the United States, or an alien who is lawfully present in the United States?
100
This is what RHP stands for.
What is Replacement Housing Payment?
100
The Uniform Act applies to ______ and ______ assisted programs that cause the displacement of people from their homes, businesses, farms and/or non-profit organizations. (Think funding!)
What is Federal and federally?
100
This Amendment of the U. S. Constitution states that private property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
200
This is the number of days a homeowner/occupant must have owned and occupied the property before the initiation of negotiations in order to be eligible for the purchase supplement payment.
What is 90 days?
200
This is how all required notices SHALL be provided to a property owner or occupant under Section 24.5 - Manner of Notices.
What is personally served or sent by certified or registered first-class mail, return receipt requested, and documented in Agency files.
200
DS&S, as defined Under 24.2(a)(8), stands for this term which details certain housing standards which must be present in a comparable dwelling.
What is Decent, Safe and Sanitary?
200
A residential displacee that falls under this category - described at Section 24.401 - cannot claim a downpayment assistance payment.
What is a 90 day owner occupant?
200
The Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Act Amendments of 1987 named this Agency (under the Department of Transportation) as the newly created Federal Lead Agency.
What is the Federal Highway Administration? (FHWA)
300
When determining an RHP for residential owner occupant who lives in part of multi-use property, this is what the agent must first do to separate the amount the displacee is being paid for the dwelling portion of the property from the total amount the displacee is being paid for the whole property.
What is a carve-out?
300
Under Section 24.7, the Federal Agency funding the project may waive any requirement in the regulations not required by law if it determines that the waiver does not reduce any assistance or protection provided to an owner or displaced person. Any request for federal waiver SHALL be justified on this kind of a basis.
What is a "case by case" basis?
300
The abbreviation ION is short for this term which generally refers to the date of delivery of the initial written offer of just compensation by the Agency to the owner or the owner's representative to purchase the real property for the project.
What is "Initiation of Negotiations"?
300
The amount to be used in computing the fixed payment to a displaced Non-Profit Organization under Section 24.305 is the average of 2 years annual gross revenues less these kinds of expenses.
What are administrative expenses?
300
In November of 2001, the IRWA held its first Uniform Act Symposium in Mesa, Arizona, commemorating the 30th anniversary of this.
What is the year the Uniform Act went into effect?
400
This Federal Agency annually issues their Public Housing and Section 8 Annual Program Income Limits document, which is what agents use to test the "financial means" of a 90 day occupant when computing their base for Replacement Housing Payment.
What is the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)?
400
Under Section 24.203, Relocation Notices, no lawful occupant SHALL be required to move unless he or she has received at least this many days advance written notice of the earliest date by which he or she may be required to move.
What is 90 days?
400
DLTPP, the abbreviation for this term, is a type of payment which can be made when a business loses the use of personal property as a result of moving or discontinuing the business or farm operation.
What is Direct Loss of Tangible Personal Property?
400
Under 24.207(d), Time for filing, all claims for a relocation payment made by a tenant shall be filed with the Agency no later than 18 months after this date.
What is the date of displacement?
400
The first comprehensive revision to the Uniform Act regulation since its initial publication in 1989 was published in the federal register as the final rule to 49 CFR Part 24 on January 5 of this year.
What is 2005?
500
This amount is the highest monthly supplement for rent and utilities that a 90 day occupant can receive and still have a total rental assistance payment which does not exceed the maximum RHP allowed under 49 CFR 24.402.
What is $171.43 per month? ($171.43 x 42 = $7,200.00)
500
Although very little in 49 CFR Part 24 is discretionary, the use of the word SHALL (or must) lets us know that whatever regulatory provision being discussed is mandatory and has the force of this.
What is law?
500
This entity, OIG for short, is responsible for investigating allegations of Fraud, Waste and Abuse in Department of Transportation Programs.
What is the Office of Inspector General?
500
Payment to a part-time business in the home which does not contribute materially to the household income is defined as this kind of payment under Section 24.304(b)(4) - Reestablishment expenses.
What is ineligible?
500
The Uniform Act itself was most recently amended November 21, 1997, by Public Law 105-117, which addresses the relocation assistance eligibility of what category of "persons not displaced"?
What is "Alien not lawfully present in the United States"?
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