---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 3537c"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "3537c"
heading: "Prohibition of lump-sum payments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/3537c"
units:
  - "Chapter 44 — Department of Housing and Urban Development"
---

# §3537c. Prohibition of lump-sum payments


In providing relocation assistance in connection with any program administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) may not make lump-sum payments to any displaced residential tenant, except where necessary to cover—

- (1) moving expenses;
- (2) a downpayment on the purchase of a replacement residence, including a condominium unit or membership in a cooperative housing association; or
- (3) any incidental expenses related to paragraph [(1)](#1) or [(2)](#2).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–174, § 14, as added Pub. L. 102–550, title IX, § 922, Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 3884.)