2020-896-E Housing - NC Dept of Health and Human Services CARES Act funding

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DocuSign Envelope ID: BOFE06B7-7OC7-44D2-A46C-D41E904EED9B I i 14. Duplication of Benefits: Subreciplent shall not carry out any of the activities under this Agreement in a manner that results in a prohibited duplications of benefits as defined by Section 312 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act(42 U.S.C. 5155) and in accordance with Section 1210 of the Disaster Recovery Reform Act of 2018 (division D of Public Law 115-2541 132 Stat. 3442), which amended section 312 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance act (42 U.S.C. 5155). Subrecipient must prevent duplication of benefits, consistent with CRF and ESG- CV requirements. 15. Funding Priority Order: Agencies that were awarded CRF for activities for which they were also funded through ESG-CV must spend CRF first with some exceptions (see CRF for Rapid Rehousing section below). NC DHHS ESG Office anticipates that some ! Agencies that receive CRF funds will be delayed in spending ESG-CV awards. Agencies will not be docked for this. However, Agencies should communicate proactively with NC DHHS ESG Office if they have concerns with spending either CRF or ESG-CV awards in the necessary timeline so those funds can be reallocated. 16. CRF for Street Outreach and/or Emergency Shelter: Once an Agency spends the full CRF award and accounts for it through requisitions sent to NC DHHS ESG Office, the Agency may begin submitting requisitions to ESG-CV. All requisitions to ESG-CV will be reimbursement-based. If the Agency does not spend the full CRF award by December i 30, 2020, all remaining CRF funds must be returned to NC DHHS Division of Aging and Adult Services which will revert the funding back to the Treasury. All Agencies will submit requisitions to ESG-CV for any expenses starting December 31, 2020. l 17. CRF for Rapid Rehousing: Based on current HUD guidance, Agencies must not fully 1 spend their CRF before ESG-CV. To ensure that households served first with CRF funds for Rapid Rehousing maintain eligibility to be served with ESG-CV funds, Agencies must take the following steps. Agencies that do not take these steps may cause a household i to lose ESG-CV eligibility and/or be required to pay back ESG-CV funds spent on these households. a. Rapid Rehousing, whether it starts with CRF or ESG-CV funding should be treated as one HMIS program. Client level info should be entered in HMIS as soon as the project begins regardless of the primary or secondary funding source. b. Current ESG-CV guidance states that for a household to be eligible for ESG-CV funds, some portion of costs must be paid with ESG-CV expenses from the start of their program enrollment and eligibility determination. Therefore, all agencies that are using CRF to fund Rapid Rehousing must charge 20% of all household services (i.e. case management, housing search and placement, etc) costs to ESG-CV on a monthly basis. The remaining 80% of monthly household services costs must be charged to CRF. The services costs charged to ESG CV and CRF must reflect households enrolled in HMIS for Rapid Re-housing. 1 c. Below is an illustration to help plan for distributing these costs: i October Invoice Remittance Households Served 5 i Total Services Cost $750 ESG CV Cost Share 20% $150 CRF Cost Share 80% $600 i 3 I