Assistance from the Disaster Recovery Community Development Block Grant program is required to meet one of three National Objectives. Congress, in appropriating the funds for Disaster Recovery, stipulated that at least 50% of the funds must be spent on the benefit to Low to Moderate Income persons National Objective. For the Disaster Recovery Economic Development programs the LMI benefit National Objective (24 CFR 570.483(b)(4) ) will be documented by each applicant for assistance filling out a Low Moderate Income Certification form for the appropriate income area, either for an individual parish or a metro area. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) calculates the area median (AMI) and the 80% of area median income (LMI) annually.
Instructions: After identifying the appropriate DR Economic Development program, each applicant must calculate the total household income and indicate on the form the corresponding income category according to the applicant's household size. The following items should be included: Wage or salary income; self-employment income; interest, dividends, or net rental income; social security income; supplemental security income; public assistance income; retirement income; all other income (unemployment compensation, alimony and child support etc.). HUD regulations also requires that certain ethnic, racial and gender information be reported for each applicant (24 CFR 570.506 (g)(2)).
Download the LMI Certification Form 2007 Low-Moderate Income Limits Spreadsheet
Download the LMI Certification Form 2008 Low-Moderate Income Limits Spreadsheet
For programs that involve direct financial assistance; HUD has granted a waiver/alternative requirement for documenting LMI benefit. In lieu of collecting household income data for each employee of a business, the alternative requirement provides for each employer to identify the salary level for his employees by occupational classification and compare it to the one person LMI limit. The link below provides spreadsheets for each income area.
Download the Alternative Requirement spreadsheet
