FSS Achievement Metrics Score Notice Released

On November 15, HUD published a notice in the Federal Register titled “Family Self-Sufficiency Achievement Metrics (“FAM”) Score.” The notice describes updates to the FAM Score that HUD has implemented to track the program performance of PHAs that receive FSS program coordinator grants.

The FAM Score is meant to provide HUD, Congress, PHAs, and other entities information on the performance of individual FSS programs. According to HUD, this is meant to help grantees determine how their programs compare to others across the country and their success in helping participants graduate from the FSS program.

This notice makes a number of adjustments meant to improve the FAM Score such as updating thresholds for computing scores; factoring in local economic conditions; using a three-year average for measuring earnings and graduation rates; modifying the number of comparison households used to determine the Earnings Performance Measure; and clarifying how joint FSS grantees are counted across years.

For PHAs that received MTW Demonstration designation prior to December 15, 2015, this notice does not apply.

A more detailed analysis of this notice will be featured in the next edition of the NAHRO Monitor on November 30.

For the full notice, please see here.