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Application for Premium Refund or
Distributive Share Payment.
OMB Approval Number: OMB–2502–
0414.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Form Number: Application for
Premium Refund or Distributive Share
Form HUD–27050–B.
Description of the need for the
information and proposed use: Mortgage
Insurance Termination is used by
servicing mortgagees to comply with
HUD requirements for reporting
termination of FHA mortgage insurance.
This information is used whenever FHA
mortgage insurance is terminated and

no claim for insurance benefits will be
filed. This information is submitted on
via the internet or EDI and is used to
directly pay eligible homeowners. This
condition occurs when the form passes
the criteria of certain system edits.
As the result, the system generates a
disbursement to the eligible homeowner
for the refund consisting of the unused
portion of the paid premium. The
collection information required is used
to update HUD’s Single-Family
Insurance System. The billing of
mortgage insurance premiums is
discontinued as a result of the
transaction. Without this information
Number of
respondents

Information collection

Frequency of
response

Total
annual
responses

Hours per
response

Total
annual
hours

Mortgage Insurance Termination—HUD–27050–A .............................
Application for Premium Refund or Distributive Share—HUD–
27050–B ...........................................................................................

6,000

Varies

675,000

.08

54,000

20,000

1

20,000

.25

5,000

Totals ............................................................................................

26,000

........................

695,000

................

59,000

B. Solicitation of Public Comment
This notice is soliciting comments
from members of the public and affected
parties concerning the collection of
information described in Section A on
the following:
(1) Whether the proposed collection
of information is necessary for the
proper performance of the functions of
the agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(2) The accuracy of the agency’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection of information; (3) Ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information to be collected; and
(4) Ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond; including through the
use of appropriate automated collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology, e.g., permitting electronic
submission of responses.
HUD encourages interested parties to
submit comment in response to these
questions.
C. Authority
Section 2 of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3507.
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the premium collection/monitoring
function would be severely impeded
and program data would be unreliable.
Under streamline III when the form is
processed and but does not pass the
series of edits the system generates in
these cases the Application for Premium
Refund or Distributive Share Payment to
the homeowner to be completed and
returned to HUD for further processing
for the refund. In general, a Premium
Refund is the difference between the
amount of prepaid premium and the
amount of the premium that has been
earned by HUD up to the time the
mortgage is terminated.

Dated: January 17, 2020.
Colette Pollard,
Department Reports Management Officer,
Office of the Chief Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–7024–N–02]

30-Day Notice of Proposed Information
Collection: Family Report, MTW Family
Report, MTW Expansion Family
Report; OMB# 2577–0083
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Public and Indian
Housing, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

HUD is seeking approval from
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for the information collection
described below. In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), HUD
is requesting comment from all
interested parties on the proposed
collection of information. HUD has
revised the Form-50058 MTW
Expansion in response to public
comments received during the public
comment period provided for by the 60Day Notice of Proposed Information
Collection. These revisions are more
thoroughly described below. This
publication is to provide notice to
Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) of the
revisions and to give PHAs the
opportunity to comment on such
revisions. The purpose of this notice is
to allow for an additional 30 days of
public comment.
DATES: Comments Due Date: February
28, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit comments regarding
this proposal. Comments should refer to
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the proposal by name and/or OMB
Control Number and should be sent to:
Colette Pollard, Reports Management
Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing
and Urban Development, 451 7th Street
SW, Room 4176, Washington, DC
20410–5000; telephone 202–402–3400
(this is not a toll-free number) or email
at [email protected] for a copy of
the proposed forms or other available
information. Persons with hearing or
speech impairments may access this
number through TTY by calling the tollfree Federal Relay Service at (800) 877–
8339.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Dawn Smith, Office of Policy, Programs
and Legislative Initiatives, PIH,
Department of Housing and Urban
Development, 451 7th Street SW, Room
3178, Washington, DC 20410; telephone
202–402–6488, (this is not a toll-free
number). Persons with hearing or
speech impairments may access this
number via TTY by calling the Federal
Relay Service at (800) 877–8339. Copies
of available documents submitted to
OMB may be obtained from Ms. Smith.
This
notice informs the public that HUD is
seeking approval from OMB for the
information collection described in
Section A. The Federal Register notice
that solicited public comment on the
information collection for a period of 60
days was published on August 19, 2019
at 84 FR 42943.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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A. Overview of Information Collection
Title of Information Collection:
Family Report, MTW Family Report,
MTW Expansion Family Report.
OMB Approval Number: 2577–0083.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Form Number: Form HUD–50058
Family Report, HUD–50058 MTW
Family Report, Form HUD–50058 MTW
Expansion Family Report.
Description of the need for the
information and proposed use: The
Office of Public and Indian Housing of
the Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) provides funding to
public housing agencies (PHAs) to
administer assisted housing programs.
Form HUD–50058, Form HUD–50058
MTW, and Form HUD–50058 MTW
Expansion Family Reports solicit
demographic, family profile, income
and housing information on the entire
nationwide population of tenants
residing in assisted housing. The
assisted housing programs include the
Public Housing, Section 8 Housing
Choice Vouchers, Section 8 ProjectBased Vouchers, Section 8 Moderate

HUD–50058
HUD–50058
HUD–50058
HUD–50058
HUD–50058
HUD–50058

* Average
number of
reponses per
respondent
(with responses)

Number of
respondents
(PHA)
(with responses)

Information collection

Form
Form
Form
Form
Form
Form

Rehabilitation programs, Moving to
Work (MTW) Demonstration, and MTW
Local Non-Traditional programs. The
information collected through the Form
HUD–50058 MTW Expansion will also
be used to monitor and evaluate the
expansion MTW PHAs (PHAs
designated as MTW pursuant to the
2016 Expansion Statute) that are
participating in the MTW
Demonstration program. The
information collected through these
forms will be used for the following
purposes.
• Analyze assisted housing programs;
• Determine the occupancy level of
public housing and calculate the
operating subsidy in accordance with 24
CFR 990;
• Permit PHAs to monitor their own
reporting to identify favorable and
unfavorable trends;
• Monitor PHAs and participants for
compliance with program regulations
and requirements;
• Fraud detection and prevention via
rent/income monitoring;
• Housing inventory and
development of program initiatives with

emphasis on the housing of special
needs groups; and
• Make available accurate
demographic information depicting
tenant characteristics to Congress and
other interested parties (however this
data is typically scrubbed of any
personally identifiable information).
This 30-Day Notice of Proposed
Information Collection provides PHAs
with notice of revisions to the proposed
Form-50058 MTW Expansion published
on August 19, 2019 in the 60-Day Notice
of Proposed Information Collection at 84
FR 42943. The Form-50058 MTW
Expansion published in this notice
revises some of the items published in
the 60-Day Notice in response to public
and internal comments received. These
revisions are summarized in Section D
of this notice. Additionally, HUD has
summarized public comments and
provided responses to those comments
in Section E of this notice.
Respondents (i.e. affected public):
Public Housing Agencies, State and
local governments, individuals and
households.

Total annual
responses

Minutes per
response

Total hours

Regulatory
reference
(24 CFR)
* See attached

New Admission .............................
Recertification ...............................
MTW New Admission ...................
MTW Recertification .....................
MTW Expansion New Admission
MTW Expansion Recertification ...

4,014
4,014
39
39
100
100

87
583
529
4,018
87
583

349,218
2,340,162
20,631
156,702
8,700
58,300

40
20
40
20
40
20

232,812
780,054
13,754
52,234
5,800
19,433

908.101
908.101
908.101
908.101
908.101
908.101

Totals ...................................................................

4,153

..............................

2,933,713

........................

1,104,087

............................

* Average Number of Responses per Respondent = Total Annual Responses/Number of Respondents.
Estimated annualized hourly cost to respondents (PHA); Form HUD–50058: To report using Form HUD–50058 Family Report, it will cost the average PHA
$1,015.00 annually to enter and submit all data for New Admission and $3,400.83 annually for Recertification.
Estimated annualized hourly cost to respondents (PHA); Form HUD–50058 MTW: To report using Form HUD–50058 Family Report, it will cost the average PHA
$6,171.67 annually to enter and submit all data for New Admissions and $23,438.33 annually for Recertification.
Estimated annualized hourly cost to respondents (PHA); Form HUD–50058 MTW Expansion: To report using Form HUD–50058 Family Report, it will cost the average PHA $1,015.00 annually to enter and submit all data for New Admissions and $3,400.78 annually for Recertification.

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B. Solicitation of Public Comment
This notice is soliciting comments
from members of the public and affected
parties concerning the collection of
information described in Section A on
the following:
(1) Whether the proposed collection
of information is necessary for the
proper performance of the functions of
the agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(2) The accuracy of the agency’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection of information;
(3) Ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
(4) Ways to minimize the burden of
the collection of information on those
who are to respond; including through

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the use of appropriate automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submission of responses.
HUD encourages interested parties to
submit comment in response to these
questions.
C. Authority
Section 3507 of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35.
D. Overview of Significant Changes
Made to the Form-50058 MTW
Expansion
The following represents the most
notable changes to the Form-50058
MTW Expansion. However, other
changes may have also been made
which may not be identified below. The

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Form-50058 MTW Expansion should be
reviewed in its entirety to determine the
exact nature and scope of these
revisions. A copy of the revised Form50058 MTW Expansion can be obtained
per the information provided earlier in
this notice under FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION, or on the HUD Moving to
Work website at https://www.hud.gov/
mtw.
• The response codes for line 2w, End
of Participation reasons, were updated
to reflect feedback from commenters.
• Line 2x, Interim Reexamination
reasons, was added to allow HUD to
know why a PHA is using action type
3, Interim Reexamination. This includes
changes associated with rent hardship
requests and stepped rents.
• Line 3r, Average number of hours
worked per week, was one of two lines

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added to this section of the form to
assist with capturing information about
work requirements.
• Line 3s, Work requirement
compliance, is the second line that was
added in this section to assist with
capturing information about work
requirements.
• Line 5i, Date of last Housing
Quality Standards (HQS) inspection,
was updated to remove the word
‘‘annual’’ from the label since PHAs
may perform inspections at intervals
other than annual (e.g., biennial).
• Line 7h, Prior year or current year/
anticipated income, replaces the line 7h
that was previously marked as
‘‘Reserved’’. This line was added to
capture whether a PHA is reporting
prior year or current year/anticipated
income for the household. The prior
year provision is in the Housing
Opportunity Through Modernization
Act of 2016 (HOTMA) and, while all
PHAs will need to complete it, PHAs in
cohort 2 that will study rent reform may
also need to reflect ‘‘prior year’’ income
is being used.
• The title of Section 8 of the form
was changed from ‘‘Expected Income
Per Year’’ to ‘‘Deductions and
Allowances’’ to better reflect the content
of the section. This change is cosmetic
and does not affect submission of data
to the PIH Information Center (PIC).
• Line 8u, Deductions and allowances
not reflected above, was changed to
clarify that it will capture any
deductions and allowances not captured
on other lines above this line in this
section. It is still intended to also be
used for Local, Non-Traditional
Property-Based and Local, NonTraditional Tenant-Based programs.
• Line 8x, Total allowances, was
updated to reflect that line 8u will be
used in the calculation to determine the
value for this line.
• Line 8y, Adjusted annual income,
has been changed so that it is now the
same as the Form-50058.
• Lines 10u, 11u, 11ap, 12x, and 12ak
were updated to reflect the updated
response code labels for the MTW
alternate rent types so that it is clearer
that they are for MTW. This will also
make it clearer when looking at the data
in reports, etc.
• Lines 11d, 11e, and 11f for projectbased voucher (PBV) portability have
been restored to the form. They are to
be used to reflect that a household that
was a tenant-based voucher (TBV)
participant at the initial PHA has ported
to the receiving PHA and received a
PBV.
• Lines 11v and 12y, Alternate HAP
to owner, had been omitted and have
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when one of the alternate rent types is
utilized.
• Lines 11w and 12z, Alternate tenant
rent, were updated to change the word
‘‘or’’ to ‘‘including’’ to clarify that they
will be completed when a selection is
made in 11u and when the program type
is Local, Non-Traditional PropertyBased and Local, Non-Traditional
Tenant-Based.
• Lines 11ar and 12an, Alternate
prorated tenant rent, had been omitted
and have been added to collect this
information when one of the alternate
rent types is utilized.
• Line 12ap, Additional financial
support for tenant-based voucher
family, and line 12aq, Financial
incentive for property owner, were
added to assist in data collection when
landlord incentives are utilized.
E. Summary of Form-50058 MTW
Expansion Comments and HUD
Responses
Comment: A commenter stated that
HUD needs to be able to track rent
hardship requests, especially, but not
necessarily limited to, the MTW
Expansion cohort 2 PHAs, which will
evaluate rent reform. Further, HUD
needs to be able to track stepped rent
increases.
HUD Response: HUD has added line
2x, Interim Reexamination reasons, and
has identified ‘‘Alternate rent hardship
request’’ and ‘‘Stepped rent update
without income reexamination’’ as two
of the response codes. Other common
reasons for the action type of Interim
Reexaminations were also provided.
Comment: Commenters encouraged
HUD to further refine the End of
Participation reason response codes so
that they are more accurate and
eliminate the overlap among some of the
reasons in the initial list.
HUD Response: HUD worked with
existing MTW PHAs and internally with
PD&R (Policy Development and
Research) and has updated the list of
response codes on the revised draft of
the form.
Comment: A commenter stated that
PHAs need to be able to reflect if prior
year or current year income is entered
on the form. It was stated that this MTW
Expansion cohort 2 PHAs may need this
and that it is also referred to in HOTMA.
HUD Response: HUD has
incorporated this change into the
revised draft of the form.
Comment: A commenter stated that in
order to track information about
households subject to a work
requirement, HUD should add data
elements for average number of hours
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and for household compliance with a
PHA’s work requirement policy.
HUD Response: HUD has
incorporated these changes into the
revised draft of the form.
Comment: A commenter stated that in
order to track information about
landlord incentives, HUD should add
data elements for additional financial
support for tenant-based voucher
families and financial incentive for
property owner.
HUD Response: HUD has
incorporated these changes into the
revised draft of the form.
Comment: A commenter suggested
clarifying the labels for the MTW
alternate rent types listed Sections 10,
11, and 12 of the form so that it is
clearer that they are tied to the MTW
program.
HUD Response: HUD has
incorporated these changes into the
revised draft of the form.
Comment: A commenter expressed
concern about the required data
collection for Local, Non-Traditional
Tenant-Based and Local, NonTraditional Property-Based assistance.
They were concerned about the ability
to be able to submit this data due to the
different types of local, non-traditional
programs that exist and the
administrative burden it could cause to
PHAs and partner agencies to try to
collect and submit this data on the
Form-50058 MTW Expansion. Finally,
the commenter stated that partner
agencies may already be submitting data
in other HUD systems.
HUD Response: HUD understands the
concerns expressed; however, due to a
Government Accountability Office
(GAO) audit finding HUD must begin to
collect data for households assisted
through local, non-traditional activities.
HUD will ensure flexibilities are built
into the PIC system so that an agency
will be able to provide the information
they do have but will not receive fatal
errors for information that cannot be
provided.
Comment: A commenter stated that
current MTW agencies continue to
experience issues with submitting
Form-50058 MTW data to PIC,
specifically with the system not
identifying the source of an error and
recommend changes be made to the
system so that this information will be
known.
HUD Response: PIH is working with
REAC (Real Estate Assessment Center)
to ensure that the upgrade to PIC
includes this information.
Comment: A commenter asked for
clarification on line 1h, Unit Real Estate
ID Number, and how it will affect

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reporting data for program types other
than public housing.
HUD Response: REAC has added this
unique identifier data element to PIC
initially for public housing because PIC
already has unit numbers and address
information through the building
entrances that the units are attached to.
It will be created for other program
types based on the unit address
information provided on the Form50058 MTW Expansion that will be
geocoded, so that each unit address will
have its own unique identifier.
Comment: A commenter stated that
without a copy of the Technical
Reference Guide (TRG) it is difficult to
fully understand what will need to be
submitted by MTW Expansion PHAs
and what errors are going to be
enforced.
HUD Response: HUD is currently
working to conclude work on the first
release for MTW Expansion. As part of
this, REAC is working on the TRG and
will provide it to the software vendors
once it is completed.
Comment: A commenter noted that
previous listening sessions and
conferences had appeared to indicate
that the PIC–NG would utilize a single
Form-50058 format for all PHAs.
HUD Response: Since MTW
Expansion PHAs will be the first to use
PIC–NG and all other PHAs will not be
moved over until some point after that,
HUD is not able to move to using a
single Form-50058 at this time.
Comment: A commenter noted that
for consistency with other program
codes, the ‘‘Local, Non-Traditional
Tenant-Based’’ program code of LN
should instead be LT.
HUD Response: As mentioned in the
previous publication, HUD is utilizing
the program codes from the Form-50058
MTW with some exceptions. Since LN
is one of the codes on the MTW form,
it will be retained on the MTW
Expansion form as well.
Comment: A commenter expressed
concerns about lines for assets and
allowances of the Form-50058 MTW
Expansion that mention ‘‘annual’’ since
those items may be biennial or triennial.
HUD Response: HUD clarified this
comment with the commenter and
confirmed that the form and upgraded
PIC system, called PIC–NG, will allow
for biennial and triennial
recertifications. Line 5i, Date of Last
Annual HQS Inspection, was also
mentioned during the conversation. We
have removed the word annual from
this line’s label in response.
Comment: A commenter stated that
line 8u, Deductions and allowances not
reflected above, would be more useful if
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more flexibility in other areas of Section
8 of the form and utilize this line for
items not addressed elsewhere. Line 8x
could then be used to total lines 8e, 8n,
8p, 8s, 8t, and 8u and no change would
be needed for line 8y.
HUD Response: HUD has
incorporated these changes into the
revised draft of the form.
Comment: A commenter stated that
lines for alternate HAP to owner and
alternate prorated tenant rent appeared
to be missing from the form in Sections
11 and 12, which would allow HUD to
get similar information for alternate rent
as is collected for the standard rent
calculation.
HUD Response: HUD acknowledges
that these lines were omitted from the
form in error and has added them to the
revised draft of the form.
Comment: A commenter stated that
lines 11d through 11f are needed to
report information on tenants that have
ported into a receiving PHA’s
jurisdiction after being housed under a
tenant-based voucher in the initial
PHA’s jurisdiction.
HUD Response: HUD acknowledges
that these lines were omitted from the
form in error and has added them back
to the revised draft of the form.
Comment: A commenter stated that if
a family can participate in FSS or MTW
self-sufficiency, but not both, then both
programs should be able to share the
family services table in line 17i.
HUD Response: HUD clarified this
comment with the commenter and
stated that a household can participate
in both programs. Therefore, separate
family services tables are needed to be
able to identify which needs are being
met through FSS and which are being
met through MTW self-sufficiency.
Dated: January 10, 2020.
Colette Pollard,
Department Report Management Officer,
Office of the Chief Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–7024–N–01]

30-Day Notice of Proposed Information
Collection: HUD Certified Housing
Counselor Registration—Office of
Housing Counseling; OMB #2502–0614
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Housing—Federal Housing
Commissioner, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

HUD is seeking approval from
the Office of Management and Budget

SUMMARY:

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(OMB) for the information collection
described below. In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD is
requesting comment from all interested
parties on the proposed collection of
information. The purpose of this notice
is to allow for 30 days of public
comment.
DATES: Comments Due Date: February
28, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit comments regarding
this proposal. Comments should refer to
the proposal by name and/or OMB
Control Number and should be sent to:
Colette Pollard, Reports Management
Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing
and Urban Development, 451 7th Street
SW, Room 4176, Washington, DC
20410–5000; telephone 202–402–3400
(this is not a toll-free number) or email
at [email protected] for a copy of
the proposed forms or other available
information. Persons with hearing or
speech impairments may access this
number through TTY by calling the tollfree Federal Relay Service at (800) 877–
8339.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Colette Pollard, Reports Management
Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing
and Urban Development, 451 7th Street
SW, Room 4176, Washington, DC
20410–5000; email Colette Pollard at
[email protected] or telephone
202–402–3400 (this is not a toll-free
number). Persons with hearing or
speech impairments may access this
number through TTY by calling the tollfree Federal Relay Service at (800) 877–
8339.
Copies of available documents
submitted to OMB may be obtained
from Ms. Pollard.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice informs the public that HUD is
seeking approval from OMB for the
information collection described in
Section A. The Federal Register notice
for the 60 days was published on
October 11, 2019 at 84 FR 54915.
A. Overview of Information Collection
Title of Information Collection: HUD
Certified Housing Counselor
Registration.
OMB Approval Number: 2502–0614.
OMB Expiration Date: 1/31/2020.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Form Number: None.
Description of the need for the
information and proposed use: The
information will be collected on the
Office of Housing Counseling, HUD
Housing Counselor Certification
Training and Examination website,
www.HUDHousingCounselors.com, and

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