Extremely low income housing question.?

Question

My father only brings in around $620/month from disability. He has class 4 angina and has had a double bypass and is no longer able to work.

I am wondering what his monthly low income rent should be, because his current housing authority is going up on his rent again.

I work with someone who said that their friend pays around $10/month rent and really has no disabilities like my father does. Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

We live in Arkansas and after they go up on his rent, its going to be around $150/month. He falls under the Extremely Low Income bracket and that seemed too high to me. He got a cost of living increase of $14 dollars and they are going up on his rent by $16 and reducing his utility allowance by almost $20, so his rent is going up ~$22 after his cost of living increase.

I wish there was something I could do for him, but he is afraid he is going to lose his disability if he comes to live with me. I want him to have his independence, he is only 55 years old, but I want him to have as good a life as he can with his disability.

Could he lose his disability for moving in with me? Would they count my income?

Answer 1

I'd suggest you contact social services and disability. Maybe he needs to have his case reviewed. Good luck to you.

Answer 2

I don't know what state you are in but in MI they base the amount of rent you pay by how much income you get. Where I live each tenant pays a different amount. I think if a person on disability gets a yearly cost of living increase then the housing authority or whoever owns the place ups it to half of the increase the tennat gets. It's not fair. I think someone getting around $620 should pay less than $160 a month. Good luck.

Answer 3

Low income housing takes 30% of your income plus some deductions - for example if you have extremely high medical bills they'll deduct some monthly rent - I've been living in low income housing - state - for 11and a half years because of disability and no one here pays $10 a month rent. Your friend's acquaintance may be paying that rent because he is living in a family member's dwelling or friend's place,and so is paying little rent. For example, I know a woman who works and makes about $1000 a month - my guess - and she is a friend with her landlord for now and pays NO RENT! I doubt your acquaintance's friend is living in low income housing - but is more likely being helped by someone kind and generous - too bad the world isn't that way for more people like your father who has such a low income... Good luck...P.S. There are the rare circumstances when one qualifies for Housing and gets NO social security and no welfare but is applying for disabilty, I've heard of a few of them here in the past... and they have no income but food stamps, say a few hundred dollars a month. Under these extreme circumstances there is little or no rent money to gather or maybe like your acquaintance's friend only $10 a month until this person is deemed disabled by the government....hope I helped clear up a common misconseption that there are people living for free in Housing with huge incomes - it's just not happening - the government would never let it happen...He will not lose his disability if he comes to live with you - however he may lose health insurance coverage if you claim him as a dependent - so you may not want to claim him as as a dependent but it may vary from state to state (for example ask if he's still eligible for Medicaid if he's on it if he moves in with you) - but I'm not 100% sure about dependency status so call Social Security on Wednesday, they'll tell him and you this truthfully, my grandmother lived with my uncle for years and collected her check ... they will not count your income toward his check ask Social Security they'll tell you it's OK...Good luck..

Answer 4

If your Dad is receiving SSD, that is generally based upon his lifetime income. It's not a needs based entitlement meaning that if he moves in with you it should not affect his payments. If he has other income that COULD affect it though. If he is receiving SSI in addition to the SSD, that IS needs based and some of that could be at risk if he moves in with you. Do have him check with the local Social Security office to see if there would be any impact on his benefits if he were living with you.

If you are helping to support your Dad, it MIGHT be possible for you to claim him as a dependent on your taxes whether he lives with you or not. You'd have to crunch the numbers on support to see if you are paying more than 50% of it but that would be much more likely if he lived with you than on his own since you could generally consider half of your housing costs in the equation as support provided by you.

Answer 5

Housing Authority is really unfair with the people that actually need it and really kind with the people that just want to live free with no excuse. But the hard part is that they can charge up to 1/3 of the residence income. Thats on PA so you really need to find in your state to see if is the same.