Item 09 - First Amendment to Emergency Rental Assistance Program Spending Plan

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3 • Address of the rental unit, • Name, address, social security number, tax identification number or DUNS number, as applicable, for landlord and utility provider, • Amount and percentage of monthly rent covered by ERA assistance, • Amount and percentage of separately-stated utility and home energy costs covered by ERA assistance, • Total amount of each type of assistance (i.e., rent, rental arrears, utilities and home energy costs, utilities and home energy costs arrears) provided to each household, • Amount of outstanding rental arrears for each household, • Number of months of rental payments and number of months of utility or home energy cost payments for which ERA assistance is provided, • Household income and number of individuals in the household, and • Gender, race, and ethnicity for the primary applicant for assistance. Grantees should also collect information as to the number of applications received in order to be able to report to Treasury the acceptance rate of applicants for assistance. Treasury’s Office of Inspector General may require the collection of additional information in order to fulfill its oversight and monitoring requirements.1 Treasury will provide additional information regarding reporting to Treasury at a future date. Grantees will need to comply with the requirement in section 501(g)(4) of Division N of the Act to establish data privacy and security requirements for information they collect. 9. The statute requires that ERA payments not be duplicative of any other federally-funded rental assistance provided to an eligible household. Are tenants of federally subsidized housing, e.g., Low Income Housing Credit, Public Housing, or Indian Housing Block Grant-assisted properties, eligible for ERA? An eligible household that occupies a federally-subsidized residential or mixed-use property may receive ERA assistance, provided that ERA funds are not applied to costs that have been or will be reimbursed under any other federal assistance. If an eligible household receives a monthly federal subsidy (e.g., a Housing Choice Voucher, Public Housing, or Project-Based Rental Assistance) and the tenant rent is adjusted according to changes in income, the renter household may not receive ERA assistance. If a household receives rental assistance other than the ERA, the ERA assistance may only be used to pay for costs, such as the tenant-paid portion of rent and utility costs, that are not paid for by the other rental assistance. Pursuant to section 501(k)(3)(B) of Subdivision N of the Act and 2 CFR 200.403, when providing ERA assistance, the grantee must review the household’s income and sources of assistance to confirm that the ERA assistance does not duplicate any other assistance, including federal, state, and local assistance provided for the same costs. 1 Note that this FAQ is not intended to address all reporting requirements that will apply to the ERA program but rather to note for grantees information that they should anticipate needing to collect from households with respect to the provision of rental assistance. EXHIBIT 3EXHIBIT 1