Certify Utility Allowance Changes

This task is used to create Utility Allowance Change certifications for units/households in a Funding Program Group.

Prerequisites:

• There must be a Rent Plan with a Utility Allowance Change (UA ) set-up for the Funding Program Group.

How do you get here?

Community Detail Rent Tab select the Funding Program Group and the Rent Plan Schedule effective date with a UA Tasks Certify Utility Allowance Changes

To Certify Utility Allowance Changes:

1. On the left side of the screen there will be a list of units/households in the funding program group that need to be certified for a Utility Allowance Change with the effective date of the Rent Plan UA you selected.  To exclude units from the certification uncheck the box in the Include column next to the unit.

   • Household's will only be listed here if the Rent Change Rules have the Utility Allowance Increase and/or Decrease set to Change on Date.  If they are set to Change on Next Rent Change, the new UA will be certified when the next rent change occurs.

2. Click Next to create the Utility Allowance Change certifications for the selected units/households.

3. A pop-up box will appear asking "Update Utility Allowance Change for # units?"  Click OK to proceed, or click Cancel to go back to the unit selection screen to make changes.

An Overall Status window will pop up with a Passed or Failed message.

If it failed you may need to make a correction or contact Bostonpost Client Support at myMRI or contact a Client Support Analyst directly at (877) 579-8896 for assistance.

If it passed click Close.

4. Select any available documents you want to print by checking the box next to the document name.

1. • You can also use the Select All and Deselect All links to help in making your selections.

   • Documents included in the "Gross Rent Change" Document Group (System Administration > Maintain Documents - Maintain Document Groups) will be included in the list of available documents.

5. Specify the number of copies you want for each document.

   • You can preview many of the documents in Microsoft Word, make changes, and print them within Microsoft Word by clicking the preview icon.

6. Click Finished.

Related Topics:

• Add New Rent Plan

• Maintain Selected Rent Plan - mm/dd/yy

• Change Selected Effective Date - mm/dd/yy

• Delete Selected Rent Plan - mm/dd/yy

• Add Utility Allowance Change

• Maintain Selected Utility Change - mm/dd/yy

• Change Selected UA Effective Date - mm/dd/yy

• Delete Selected Utility Change - mm/dd/yy