Overview
- An audit with DHS flagged nearly 200,000 tenant records for review, including about 25,000 listed as deceased and roughly 6,000 ineligible non‑citizens.
- The directive applies to all HUD-funded housing and requires PHAs and participating owners to update the EIV‑SAVE Tenant Match report within 30 days.
- HUD warned that failure to comply could lead to sanctions and said it will recapture payments made for ineligible or deceased tenants.
- HUD and USCIS conducted the first large-scale upload of Section 8 and Section 9 tenant files into the SAVE system to automate immigration-status checks.
- HUD cites Section 214 and Executive Order 14218 as the legal basis, while advocacy groups caution that data lags may produce errors and burden providers.