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Chattanooga Housing Authority’s Section 8 tenants get 1 chance to repay fraud

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By Yolanda Putman 3 min read

photo Gloria Griffith of Chattanooga

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All CHA policy changes are published in the agency’s administrative plan at www.chahousing.org.

Section 8 tenants with the Chattanooga Housing Authority will be allowed only one chance to repay money owed because of fraud.

Those caught twice in fraud will lose their housing vouchers, regardless of the amount owed, CHA officials said.

“We’ve given people the benefit of the doubt when we give them one opportunity, if it was a mistake or even if they intended to do it,” CHA board member Connie O’Neal said.

The CHA has investigated about 900 cases of voucher fraud since 2004 and about $1 million has been lost, officials said. A very small portion of that has been recovered through criminal or civil courts, said Lt. Jennifer Ware, CHA’s fraud investigator for the Housing Choice Voucher Program, also known as Section 8.