Was the tenant’s HSP rent added correctly to his/her Public Assistance budget?
If the HSP tenant’s subsidy has not been correctly added to the Public Assistance budget, the tenant will need to visit or contact his/her job center to have the HSP rent added to the budget manually. The job center will need to see a copy of the HSP lease to add the rent and schedule payments to the HSP landlord. Has the HSP tenant’s Public Assistance case been sanctioned or closed? If an HSP tenant’s Public Assistance case is sanctioned or closed, HSP payments to the landlord may be stopped. If this happens in the first three month’s, the HSP subsidy may never be added to the Public Assistance case. If a case is closed or sanctioned, the tenant or advocate should call for a fair hearing and ask for “aid continuing” so that HSP payments will resume until the fair hearing occurs. However, in some cases, tenants may be responsible for rent payments during the case sanction and/or closure. Advocates can obtain a form on the state’s OTDA website at http://www.otda.state.ny.us/oah/default.
