---
kind: "section"
citation: "24 C.F.R. § 5.613"
title: "24"
number: "5.613"
heading: "Public housing program and Section 8 tenant-based assistance program: PHA cooperation with welfare agency."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/24/5.613"
---

# §5.613. Public housing program and Section 8 tenant-based assistance program: PHA cooperation with welfare agency.

- (a) This section applies to the public housing program and the [Section 8](/cfr/24/8.md) tenant-based assistance program.
- (b) The PHA must make best efforts to enter into cooperation agreements with welfare agencies under which such agencies agree:
  - (1) To target public assistance, benefits and services to families receiving assistance in the public housing program and the [Section 8](/cfr/24/8.md) tenant-based assistance program to achieve self-sufficiency;
  - (2) To provide written verification to the PHA concerning welfare benefits for families applying for or receiving assistance in these housing assistance programs.

## Notes

### Amendments

[65 FR 16717, Mar. 29, 2000]

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1437a, 1437c, 1437d, 1437f, 1437n, and 3535(d).

### Source

Source: 61 FR 54498, Oct. 18, 1996, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 12 U.S.C. 1701x; 42 U.S.C. 1437a, 1437c, 1437f, 1437n, 3535(d); 42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seq.; 34 U.S.C. 12471 et seq.; Sec. 327, Pub. L. 109-115, 119 Stat. 2396; E.O. 13279, 67 FR 77141, 3 CFR, 2002 Comp., p. 258; E.O. 13559, 75 FR 71319, 3 CFR, 2010 Comp., p. 273; E.O. 14015, 86 FR 10007, 3 CFR, 2021 Comp., p. 517.

### Source

Source: 61 FR 5202, Feb. 9, 1996, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[65 FR 16717, Mar. 29, 2000]