Community Service & Self Sufficiency Requirements

All residents who are 18 years of age and older are not exempt under the exempt, are required to perform eight (8) hours of community service each month.  This service can be provided at any local community, civic, or charitable organization.  The selection of type and location of community service to be provided is totally left to the discretion of the resident.

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Definitions

Community Service: The performance of voluntary work or duties that are a public benefit of service to improve the quality of life, enhance resident self-sufficiency, or increase resident self-responsibility in the community. Community Service is not employment and may not include political activities. 

Exempt individual: An adult who: 

1. Is 62 years or older
2. (i) Is blind or disabled individual, as defined under 216(i)(1) or 1614 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 416(i)(I); 1382c) and who certifies that because of this disability she or he is unable to comply with the service provisions of this subpart, or (ii) primary caretaker of such an individual. 
3. Is engaged in work activities
4. Meets the requirements for being exempt from having to engage in work activity under the state program funded under part A of Title IV of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) or under any welfare program of the State in which the PHA is located, including a state-administered welfare-to-work program.