Relocation Benefits Assistance

The federal government and many state and local governments require the provision of relocation assistance benefits to owners and tenants of commercial and residential properties affected by projects that are financed with the use of tax dollars. Relocation benefits are intended to prevent undue hardship to owners and tenants being displaced by publicly-funded projects.

The Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970, as amended, is a strict and complex set of federal government rules to assure individual assistance and financial benefits to persons displaced by federally-funded projects. Application of the Uniform Act must be from a base of knowledge of and experience with the Act itself.

The first and foremost task of every relocation specialist is to give timely and accurate advice to every displacee as to eligibility requirements, types of financial assistance available and rights and means to appeal decisions. Relocation specialists must be available at all times to provide these essential advisory services.

Some of the features of the Uniform Act are:

• Purchase payments for homeowners;
• Rental housing payments;
• Down payment assistance;
• Payments for moving costs;
• Requirement of comparability of replacement housing to existing housing in terms of functional equivalency, living space per occupant, accessibility to place of employment, location relative to public utilities and commercial and public facilities; and
• Verifiable decent, safe and sanitary standards.

Relocation specialists must know how to compute the various allowable payments taking into account the circumstances of individual displacees. In addition, relocation specialists must have the experience and confidence to seek waiver of certain regulatory limits or restrictions when such would be in the best interest of the individual displacee.

The Uniform Act also applies to business displacements. Complexities associated with relocation and allowable re-establishment benefits also require sophisticated knowledge and experience. Cinnabar Service Company personnel are experts in the business relocation niche of the law.

Cinnabar relocation agents are special trained to handle interpersonal relations and intensive paperwork associated with relocation assistance benefits services.