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PART I: PREVENTING, DETECTING, AND INVESTIGATING ERRORS AND PROGRAM ABUSE 14-LA. PREVENTING ERRORS AND PROGRAM ABUSE HUD created the Enterprise Income Verification (EIV) system to provide PHAs with a powerful tool for preventing errors and program abuse. PHAs are required to use the EIV system in its entirety in accordance with HUD administrative guidance [24 CFR 5.233]. PHAs are further required to: Provide applicants and participants with form HUD-52675, "Debts Owed to PHAs and Terminations" • Require all adult members of an applicant or participant family to acknowledge receipt of form HUD-52675 by signing a copy of the form for retention in the family file SAHA anticipates that the vast majority of families, owners, and SAHA employees intend to and will comply with program requirements and make reasonable efforts to avoid errors. To ensure that SAHA's HCV program is administered effectively and according to the highest ethical and legal standards, SAHA will employ a variety of techniques to ensure that both errors and intentional program abuse are rare. SAHA will discuss program compliance and integrity issues during the voucher briefing sessions described in Chapter 5. SAHA will provide each applicant and participant with a copy of "Is Fraud Worth It?" (form HUD-1141-0IG), which explains the types of actions a family must avoid and the penalties for program abuse. SAHA will provide each applicant and participant with a copy of "What You Should Know about EIV," a guide to the Enterprise Income Verification (EIV) system published by HUD as an attachment to Notice PIH 2010-19. In addition, SAHA will require the head of each household to acknowledge receipt of the guide by signing a copy for retention in the family file. For purposes of this chapter the term error refers to an unintentional error or omission. Program abuse or fraud refers to a single act or pattern of actions that constitute a false statement, omission, or concealment of a substantial fact, made with the intent to deceive or mislead. 14-I.B. DETECTING ERRORS AND PROGRAM ABUSE In addition to taking steps to prevent errors and program abuse, SAHA will use a variety of activities to detect errors and program abuse. Quality Control and Analysis of Data Under the Section 8 Management Assessment Program (SEMAP), HUD requires SAHA to review a random sample of tenant records annually to determine if the records conform to program requirements and to conduct quality control inspections of a sample of units to ensure HQS compliance [24 CFR, Part 985]. (See Chapter 16 for additional information about SEMAP requirements). iii29iio Page 14-2