II
103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 1873
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JULY 14 (legislative day, JULY 11), 1994
Received
AN ACT
To require certain payments made to victims of Nazi perse-
cution to be disregarded in determining eligibility for
and the amount of benefits or services based on need.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. CERTAIN PAYMENTS MADE TO VICTIMS OF
NAZI PERSECUTION DISREGARDED IN DE-
TERMINING 
ELIGIBILITY 
FOR 
AND 
THE
AMOUNT OF NEED-BASED BENEFITS AND
SERVICES.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Payments made to individuals be-
cause of their status as victims of Nazi persecution shall
be disregarded in determining eligibility for and the
amount of benefits or services to be provided under any
Federal or federally assisted program which provides
xbenefits or services based, in whole or in part, on need.
(b) APPLICABILITY.—Subsection (a) shall apply to
determinations made on or after the date of the enactment
of this Act with respect to payments referred to in sub-
section (a) made before, on, or after such date.
(c) PROHIBITION AGAINST RECOVERY OF VALUE OF
EXCESSIVE BENEFITS OR SERVICES PROVIDED DUE TO
FAILURE TO TAKE ACCOUNT OF CERTAIN PAYMENTS
MADE TO VICTIMS OF NAZI PERSECUTION.—No officer,
agency, or instrumentality of any government may at-
tempt to recover the value of excessive benefits or services
provided before the date of the enactment of this Act
under any program referred to in subsection (a) by reason
of any failure to take account of payments referred to in
subsection (a).
(d) NOTICE TO INDIVIDUALS WHO MAY HAVE BEEN
DENIED ELIGIBILITY FOR BENEFITS OR SERVICES DUE
TO THE FAILURE TO DISREGARD CERTAIN PAYMENTS
MADE TO VICTIMS OF NAZI PERSECUTION.—Any agency
of government that has not disregarded payments referred
to in subsection (a) in determining eligibility for a pro-
gram referred to in subsection (a) shall make a good faith
effort to notify any individual who may have been denied
eligibility for benefits or services under the program of the
potential eligibility of the individual for such benefits or
services.
(e) REPAYMENT OF ADDITIONAL RENT PAID UNDER
HUD HOUSING PROGRAMS BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO
DISREGARD REPARATION PAYMENTS.—
(1) AUTHORITY.—To the extent that amounts
are provided in appropriation Acts for payments
under this subsection, the Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development shall make payments to quali-
fied individuals in the amount determined under
paragraph (3).
(2) QUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS.—For purposes of
this subsection, the term ‘‘qualified individual’’
means an individual who—
(A) has received any payment because of
the individual’s status as a victim of Nazi per-
secution;
(B) at any time during the period begin-
ning on February 1, 1993 and ending on April
30, 1993, resided in a dwelling unit in housing
assisted under any program for housing assist-
ance of the Department of Housing and Urban
Development under which rent payments for
the unit were determined based on or taking
into consideration the income of the occupant of
the unit;
(C) paid rent for such dwelling unit for
any portion of the period referred to in sub-
paragraph (B) in an amount determined in a
manner that did not disregard the payment re-
ferred to in subparagraph (A); and
(D) has submitted a claim for payment
under this subsection as required under para-
graph (4).
The term does not include the successors, heirs, or
estate of an individual meeting the requirements of
the preceding sentence.
(3) AMOUNT OF PAYMENT.—The amount of a
payment under this subsection for a qualified indi-
vidual shall be equal to the difference between—
(A) the sum of the amount of rent paid by
the individual for rental of the dwelling unit of
the individual assisted under a program for
housing assistance of the Department of Hous-
ing and Urban Development, for the period re-
ferred to in paragraph (2)(B), and
(B) the sum of the amount of rent that
would have been payable by the individual for
rental of such dwelling unit for such period if
the payments referred to in paragraph (2)(A)
were disregarded in determining the amount of
rent payable by the individual for such period.
(4) SUBMISSION OF CLAIMS.—A payment under
this subsection for an individual may be made only
pursuant to a written claim for such payment by
such individual submitted to the Secretary of Hous-
ing and Urban Development in the form and manner
required by the Secretary before—
(A) in the case of any individual notified
by the Department of Housing and Urban De-
velopment orally or in writing that such specific
individual is eligible for a payment under this
subsection, the expiration of the 6-month period
beginning on the date of receipt of such notice;
and
(B) in the case of any other individual, the
expiration of the 12-month period beginning on
the date of the enactment of this Act.
Passed the House of Representatives July 12, 1994.
Attest:
DONNALD K. ANDERSON,
Clerk.