On May 6, 2026, HUD announced that the new EIV-SAVE Tenant Matching Report is ready for PHA use following a 5-month process.
The new Enterprise Income Verification (EIV) report compares PHA-provided citizenship descriptors to data reflected in the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) SAVE (Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements) tool. The purpose of the report is to reconcile information gathered and affirmed by the PHA with what has been concluded through the required SAVE case search.
Like other official US agencies, USCIS now agrees to match data with HUD’s to share information and assist one another in making eligibility determinations. The goal is to prevent federal rental assistance (and other comparable benefits) from being spent on persons in the country without legal immigration status. EIV shares PHA data entries for citizenship status, name, date of birth, and Social Security number, with USCIS to reveal immigration statuses as discovered by the SAVE system.
This new tool is congruent with the new goals outlined in Executive Order 14218, Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders (2/19/2025), as well as older legislation such as Section 214 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1980 and the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.
PHAs must run this report for each of their assisted households (including those using Housing Choice Vouchers) by June 5, 2026. The report is found under the Income Validation Tool tab within EIV’s main page. Each entry on the report must be analyzed to confirm that the requisite actions (such as verifying eligibility for a non-citizen lawfully in the US or denying assistance to an ineligible non-citizen) have been completed. HUD will release further information on how a PHA can prove compliance with this directive in the coming weeks. Failure to utilize the report could result in sanctions, including corrective action orders, reimbursement from non-HUD sources, withholding or reducing funding, or other actions.
For questions on this new report, HUD directs PHAs to email VerificationQuestions@hud.gov.