Revised: 08/30/2016
Go to Settings>> Waiting List
This program is used to setup information and control functions within the module.
At the top of the view are functions such as Clear and Close. For more information on functions, click here.
Check this box if applicants who are on tenant management waiting lists should have all their lists closed once housed from one.
Check this box if applicants who are on S8 waiting lists should have all their Section 8 lists closed when housed from one.
Check this box if applicants Actions are to relate to a specific waiting list. (recommended).
Select one of the following default settings:
Default C-Stat to Pending
Default List Status to Pending
Default List/Comp Status to Pending
Standard
Select the appropriate code from the drop down list. Codes are setup and maintained by users in the Action Code Master.
Select the appropriate code from the drop down list. Codes are setup and maintained by users in the Action Code Master.
Select an Action Code to automatically be added when an Applicant is added to a Waiting List. Leave this field blank if an Action code is not to be added when an Applicant is added to a Waiting LIst.
If an Action Code is not added, the Waiting List Offer/Tracking Report may not include the applicant on the report as this report only looks at the Action information.
A Horizon Information Housing specialist will enter or instruct a user to enter an appropriate application format in this field.
Enter one of the Application For codes in this field to serve as the default. The Application For will be pre selected in several of the programs.
Place a checkmark in one or more of the check boxes if the following Cstatus codes should exclude the applicant/waiting list from the active list:
Owes Money
Criminal Check
Verification Pending
Complete
Waiting on Voucher
Issued (Voucher)
Expired (Voucher)
Public Housing
Modes and information setup in this area will affect the Applicant to Tenant Wizard - Tenant Management process. Please review the information in the help file for this program to see what affect each selection will have.
Select one of the following mode options:
No Rent/Receipt Accounting
Direct Interface (All)
Direct (Rent) Indirect (Cash)
Rent Only
Receipt Only
Select the Rent Charge code. Codes are setup and maintained in the Tenant Management module in the Tenant Billing Codes program.
Select a Utility Code. Codes are setup and maintained in the Tenant Management module. Go to Maintain>>Tenant Accounting Tables>>Accounting Codes.
Placing a check mark in this field will place the module in "Enhanced Edit Mode" All applicant files will be "Read Only" or locked by default. Files must be unlocked, placing them in "Edit Mode", in order for changes to be saved.
The following can be entered and saved while the file is "Read Only", tracking items, actions, notes, and attachments.
Enter the number of days an applicant will have after a voucher has been issued before it will expire.
Enter the number of days the voucher expiration may be extended for.
Note:
An applicant's file will be flagged with a yellow (issued, not expired) or red banner (issued, expired), under the waiting list grid, with the voucher expiration information when a voucher has been issued.
Enter the percentage to be used to calculate deductions in the Rent Calculation program.
Enter the amount of the exemption per minor in the household.
Enter the amount of the exemption for a disabled adult in the household.
Enter the amount of the exemption per Full Time Student 18 years of age or older in the household.
Enter the amount of the exemption for an elderly household.
Enter the minimum amount of an asset that would require income to be imputed during the Rent Calculation.
Enter the passbook rate to be used to calculate income for the Asset during the Rent Calculation.
Enter the percentage of monthly adjusted income to be used when computing the Rent Calculation.
Enter the percentage of total monthly income (not to be confused with monthly adjusted income which takes into account deductions and expenses) to be used when computing the Rent Calculation.
Enter the maximum percentage that can be used to calculate the tenant’s rent based on income.
The following defaults are used when entering hew household composition members.
Select one of the following defaults for the eligibility code:
Not Determined
Eligible Citizen
Eligible Noncitizen
Ineligible Noncitizen
Pending Verification
Select one of the following to default Ethnicity to when entering members:
Hispanic
Non-Hispanic
Checkmark the box if the Rent Worksheet is to include signature lines
Enter the minimum rent a tenant is to pay for a Public Housing Unit.
Enter the minimum rent a tenant is to pay when they are a unit subsidized by the 50059 program.
Enter the minimum rent a tenant is to pay for a Section 8 Unit.
Enter the network path to the card printer.
Income limit information may be entered/updated in more than one area in the Waiting List program. When income limits are entered in other areas, they will be used before the income limit information entered here. There is no need to update every area. Determine the best area for entering income limits and maintain them.
Income limit information may be entered and maintained in this area. Enter the appropriate amounts in each column by family size.
If income limit information is entered in the settings file, enter the date they will become effective.
Clicking the "Save to History" button will save the Income Limit information for the effective date entered. The program will use the appropriate income limit information based on effective dates.
Enter the network path to where Tenant Management data is stored.
For Example:
H:\HorizonSoftware\Data\C001
Enter the network path to where Section 8 data is stored.
For Example:
H:\HorizonSoftware\Data\C001
The name of the Housing Authority, address and phone/fax numbers may be entered in these lines. Any lines that are not used may be left blank.
The information entered here may be merged into documents created in the Merge Template to print applicant information.
Select one of the following default settings:
Letter Code
Letter Description
The selection made here will be the default listing order for Custom Forms and Letters in the Application Master. The sort order may be changed on a one time basis in Custom Forms and Letters.
Enter the Housing Authority's code used in transmitting applicant and tenant information to PIC. Usually begins with the state abbreviation followed by a three digit number.
Horizon software uses HUD's 50058tool.bat to check 50058s for errors prior to sending them to PIC.
Enter the network path to the location of the 50058tool program.
For Example:
H:\HorizonSoftware\hud50058\50058tool.bat
Enter the network path to the folder where the tool is stored.
For Example:
H:\HorizonSoftware\hud50058
Enter the housing authority's identification number for Innovis if the service is used.
Enter the housing authority's identification number for Equilfax if the service is used.
Enter the housing authority's identification number for Experian if the service is used.
Enter the housing authority's identification number for Trans Union if the service is used.
Enter the network path information.
Enter the company or ledger code where the Collection Loss program is located.