Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-102

§8008 Funding Procedures

Title 42 › CHAPTER 89 — CONGREGATE HOUSING SERVICES › § 8008

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must create rules so nonprofit corporations and public housing agencies get timely payments for approved assisted congregate services programs. The rules must allow advance money for startup costs. If services aren’t started within six months after the groups are told funding was approved, the money can be moved to other uses. When funding is approved for projects under construction or approved for construction (including projects helped under section 1701q of title 12), the services must be in place when tenants who need them move in. The Secretary must set accounting rules to stop fraud. No more than 1 percent of yearly funds may be used by those agencies and nonprofits for evaluation. The Secretary must also keep a reserve of up to 10 percent of each year’s appropriated funds to top up grants when needed to keep services adequate for eligible residents.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §8008

The Public Health and Welfare, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)The Secretary shall establish procedures—

(1)to assure timely payments to nonprofit corporations and public housing agencies for approved assisted congregate services programs with provision made for advance funding sufficient to meet necessary startup costs;

(2)to permit reallocation of funds approved for the establishment of congregate services in existing public housing projects and projects assisted under section 1701q of title 12 if the services are not established within six months of the notification date of funding approval;

(3)to assure that where such funding has been approved for the establishment of congregate services for public housing projects and projects assisted under section 1701q of title 12 under construction or approved for construction, these services shall be in place at the start of the project’s occupancy by tenants requiring such services for maintaining independent living;

(4)to establish accounting and other standards in order to prevent any fraudulent or inappropriate use of funds under this chapter; and

(5)to assure that no more than 1 per centum of the funds appropriated under this chapter for any fiscal year may be used by public housing agencies and nonprofit corporations for evaluative purposes as required by section 8007(b)(1) of this title.

(b)The Secretary shall establish a reserve fund, not to exceed 10 per centum of the funds appropriated in each fiscal year for the provision of services under this chapter, in order to supplement grants awarded to public housing agencies and nonprofit corporations under this chapter when, in the determination of the Secretary, such supplemental adjustments are required to maintain adequate levels of services to eligible project residents.

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42 U.S.C. § 8008

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102