Rule 18 Feb 2025 compliance, small business administration, government contracting, government procurement, administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, financial regulations, penalties, small businesses, individuals with disabilities, government property, loan programs-business, grant programs-business, hubzone

šŸ¢HUBZone Program Updates

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is correcting a final rule that was published in the Federal Register on December 17, 2024. The rule clarified and improved policies surrounding a comprehensive revision to the HUBZone Program regulations published in 2019, among other changes. This document is making several technical corrections to the final regulations.

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Regulatory Compliance, Consumer Trends 17 Jan 2025 food assistance, administrative practice and procedure, mental health programs, claims, health care, fraud, military families, health insurance, individuals with disabilities, military personnel, wic program, electronic benefits, defense health agency, dental health

šŸ„—WIC Overseas Program Updates

The ASD(HA) is issuing this final rule to revise the definition of drafts, currently defined as paper instruments, within the regulation governing the WIC Overseas Program. This final rule modernizes the definition of drafts to include not only paper instruments but also other methods and processes, including electronic benefit transfers. The rule is being published as a final rule as the change to the definition of drafts involve only a minor, technical amendment to the existing regulation. The Department has determined that notice and comment would be unnecessary and contrary to public interest.

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Regulatory Changes, Financial Assistance 6 Jan 2025 compliance, puerto rico, regulations, administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, student aid, grant programs-education, grant programs-housing and community development, housing, loan programs-housing and community development, manufactured homes, low and moderate income housing, indians, federal funding, guam, rent subsidies, hud, tenant protections, northern mariana islands, individuals with disabilities, pacific islands trust territory, grant programs-indians, virgin islands, affordable housing, community development block grants, aged, homeless, public housing, american samoa

šŸ HUD Updates HOME Investment Program Regulations for 2023

HUD's HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME program or HOME) provides formula grants to States and units of general local government to fund a wide range of activities to produce and maintain affordable rental and homeownership housing and provides tenant-based rental assistance for low-income and very low-income households. This final rule revises the current HOME regulations to update, simplify, or streamline requirements, better align the program with other Federal housing programs, and implement recent amendments to the HOME statute. This final rule also includes minor revisions to the regulations for the Community Development Block Grant and Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Programs consistent with the implementation of the changes to the HOME program. This final rule follows the publication of a proposed rule on May 29, 2024, and takes into consideration the comments received in response to that proposed rule.

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