Sec. 5. Exclusion of veterans benefits from assisted housing rent considerations

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Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for purposes of determining the amount of rent paid by a family for occupancy of a dwelling unit assisted under a federally assisted housing program under subsection

(b)or in housing assisted under any other federally assisted housing program, the income and the adjusted income of the family shall not be considered to include any amounts received by any member of the family from the Secretary of Veterans Affairs as— compensation, as such term is defined in section 101(13) of title 38, United States Code; and dependency and indemnity compensation, as such term is defined in section 101(14) of such title. The federally assisted housing programs under this subsection are— the public housing program under the United States Housing Act of 1937 ( 42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq. ); the tenant-based rental assistance program under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 ( 42 U.S.C. 1437f ), including the program under subsection (o)(19) of such section for housing rental vouchers for low-income veteran families; the project-based rental assistance program under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 ( 42 U.S.C. 1437f ); the program for housing opportunities for persons with AIDS under subtitle D of title VIII of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act ( 42 U.S.C. 12901 et seq. ); the supportive housing for the elderly program under section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959 ( 12 U.S.C. 1701q ); the supportive housing for persons with disabilities program under section 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act ( 42 U.S.C. 8013 ); the continuum of care for the homeless program under subtitle C of title IV of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act ( 42 U.S.C. 11381 et seq. ); the supportive housing for very low-income veteran families program under section 2 of this Act; the rental assistance payments program under section 521(a)(2)(A) of the Housing Act of 1949 ( 42 U.S.C. 1490a(a)(2)(A) ); the rental assistance program under section 236 of the National Housing Act ( 12 U.S.C. 1715z–1 ); the rural housing programs under sections 515 and 538 of the Housing Act of 1949 ( 42 U.S.C. 1485 , 1490p–2); the HOME investment partnerships program under title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act ( 42 U.S.C. 12721 et seq. ); the block grant programs for affordable housing for Native Americans and Native Hawaiians under titles I through IV and VIII of the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 ( 25 U.S.C. 4111 et seq. , 4221 et seq.); any other program for housing assistance administered by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development or the Secretary of Agriculture under which eligibility for occupancy in the housing assisted or for housing assistance is based upon income; low-income housing credits allocated pursuant to section 42 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; and tax-exempt bonds issued for qualified residential rental projects pursuant to section 142(d) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.

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