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Screening, income, and rent

Federal income rules encoded, with every dollar tagged and every determination cited.

A determination is only as strong as the record behind it. This module builds that record as staff work, so every decision arrives with its reasons, its citations, and its documents attached.

Capabilities

Eligibility screening

  • Per-program eligibility worksheets with granted, denied, and needs-review states, automatic re-review when an applicant changes a relevant answer, and configurable staleness rules
  • Personalized document checklists: each applicant sees which documents verify their claims, with downloadable pre-filled verification forms in their language
  • Response tracking at scale, with one-click bulk did-not-respond processing
  • Background check: applicant guidance for CORI, criminal-record steps, and sealed-record rights notices
  • Centralized screening: a shared-services model where one team screens for many agencies, with field-level control over who may review what

Income and rent math

  • A line-item income calculator: 8 income categories, ~28 named exclusions, 7 deductions, every item tagged against 24 CFR 5.609, category suggestions based on uploaded documents
  • Auto-seeded dependent and elderly/disabled deductions, plus live detection of submitted income or household members not yet accounted for
  • Rent determination: total tenant payment versus flat rent, with HUD Fair Market Rent lookups by county and bedroom count
  • Voucher subsidy math: upload payment standards for your agency and comparables and we calculate gross rent with utility allowances and rent reasonableness against them

Determinations backed by data

  • A determination-letter builder with structured denial reasons, regulation citations, and links to the exact documents each decision relied on
  • AI document reading against your program’s actual eligibility rules: recommendations for grant, deny, or needs-review, citing the specific document behind each answer, confirmed by staff

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