🏠 Fax Section 8 Papers to Your Housing Authority
Your Section 8 recertification and change papers go to your own public housing agency, not to HUD, and HUD does not publish fax numbers for these offices. If your agency takes fax, the number is on your notice, your forms or the agency's own website. In New York City, for example, HPD tenants may fax forms to 212-863-5299. A US fax costs $2.99 for up to 3 pages and $0.99 for each extra page.
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Your Housing Authority Handles the Paperwork
A Housing Choice Voucher, often called Section 8, is run by your local public housing agency, also called a PHA or housing authority. Federal rules require the agency to recheck your family's income and household members at least once a year, and the agency also sets its own rules for when and how you must report a change in income or household between those yearly checks. That means the deadline and the way to send papers come from your agency, not from HUD.
When you report a change, the agency should act within a reasonable time, generally not longer than 30 days after you report it. An agency may decline to do an interim reexamination when your income drops by less than ten percent of your annual adjusted income, or a lower amount set by HUD or the agency. It must do one when income rises by ten percent or more, although increases in earned income do not count unless your family had an interim reduction earlier in the same period. An agency may also skip interim reexaminations in the last three months before your yearly recertification.
The rule: send Section 8 papers only to your own housing agency, at the fax number printed on its notice, form or website. If it lists no fax, use the portal, email, mail or office visit it gives.
Finding Your Housing Authority Fax Number
Start with the letter or recertification notice your agency sent you, because most agencies print the address, email, upload portal and any fax number on it. The agency's own forms and website are the next place to look. HUD keeps a public housing agency contact page where you choose your state to see agency contacts, and it says the information is updated weekly. The state lists show the agency name, a contact and a phone number, but not fax numbers, so call the agency and ask if you cannot find one.
If you do not know which agency holds your voucher, HUD's Public and Indian Housing Customer Service Center can help at (800) 955-2232.
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New York City: HPD and NYCHA
New York City has two agencies with separate rules. HPD says tenants may submit completed Section 8 forms by email, by fax to 212-863-5299, or through its Document Upload Portal. If you are not sure where to send something, HPD asks you to email DTRAI@hpd.nyc.gov. Owners use DTROS@hpd.nyc.gov or fax 212-863-8526.
NYCHA lists no fax route for Section 8. Changes in family composition must be reported to NYCHA within 30 days of the change. For a change in income, assets or expenses, you request an interim change on the NYCHA Tenant Self Service Portal, and if you do not have internet access you can call 718-707-7771 to ask for the interim change form.
Entering the Housing Authority Fax Number
Select United States as the country, then type all 10 digits of the housing authority fax number, with no leading 1, no spaces and no dashes. The +1 is added for you, and if you type a 1 at the start, the box removes it. A number written as (212) XXX-XXXX is entered as 212XXXXXXX.
The pay button turns on only when all 10 digits are in, so a missing digit is caught before you pay. If the number is in Canada, select Canada and enter it the same way. For more help with the number box, see how to fax to a US number online.
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The HUD-9886-A Consent Form
As a condition of assistance, each family member 18 or older, and the head of household and spouse at any age, signs a HUD-approved consent form that lets the agency check income information. The current form is HUD-9886-A. Since January 1, 2024, participants sign it at their next interim or annual reexamination, and after that a new form is generally needed only when a new adult joins the household, a member turns 18, or HUD or the agency requires it.
The copy on HUD's website shows an expiration date of 10/31/26, so a newer version may appear soon. Use the copy your housing agency gives you or asks for, and make sure every signature line for your household is signed before you scan it.
What to Put on Each Page
Make the first page a cover page addressed to your caseworker or the unit named on your notice. Write the head of household's full name, your address, your tenant or client number as it appears on the notice, your phone and email, the words "Annual recertification" or "Interim change report", a list of what is enclosed and the total page count.
Write your name and tenant or client number at the top of every page and number the pages, so a page that gets separated can be put back in your file. Put the signed forms first and the proof after them, such as pay stubs, benefit letters and bank statements. Scan to PDF rather than taking a photo at an angle, so the numbers can be read clearly.
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Deadlines, Cost and Your Record
Your deadline is the date on your agency's notice or in its policy, so send your papers as soon as you have them. If you are missing a document, call your caseworker before the deadline and ask what to do.
A cover page, two signed forms of two pages each and three pages of pay stubs and benefit letters is 8 pages, which costs $2.99 + 5 x $0.99 = $7.94. You see the price before you pay.
There is no account to create, and nothing is printed on your document, so it arrives exactly as you uploaded it. Delivery usually takes a few minutes. If the fax cannot be delivered, the full amount goes back to your card automatically, and you can check the number and send again. When the fax goes through, you get a confirmation email that shows the destination number, the page count and the time it was sent, in US Eastern Time. Keep that email, because it is your record of exactly when it was sent and to which number.
OverseasFax only sends faxes. If your caseworker may fax something back to you, our sister service GetAFax.com gives you a private US fax number for 24 hours for $5, for up to 30 pages, and each fax arrives in your email as a PDF.
Many families send the same proof to more than one program. See faxing SNAP recertification documents, faxing Medicaid renewal documents and faxing employment and income verification, and for every US topic, the US fax guide.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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My hours got cut, can I ask the housing authority to lower my rent?
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