The Homeowners Assistance Program (HAP) was developed by the Department of Defense to assist eligible service members and federal civilians, including non-appropriated fund, employees who face financial loss when selling their primary residence homes in areas where real estate values have declined because of a base closure, realignment announcement, or other military=related reasoning.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) temporarily expands the HAP to assist service members and DOD employees who are wounded, injured, or become ill when deployed, surviving spouses, of service members or D.O.D employees killed as a result of wounds while deployed, service member and civilian employees assigned to BRAC 05 organizations, and service members required to permanently relocated during the home mortgage crisis.
Eligibility
You may be eligible to apply for HAP if you meet all of the following:
- The applicant must be a military service member (including coast guard) or federal civilian employee (including non-appropriated fund) assigned to or near the installation announced for closure realignment.
Additional Eligible Candidates Include:
- Civilian and military personnel on overseas tours who transferred within three years prior to the announcement and who are homeowners in the area.
- Civilian employee homeowners on overseas tours with re-employment rights in the area affected by the announcement.
- Military member homeowners ordered into on-post housing within six months prior to the announcement.
- All applicants must have been the owner-occupant of their homes for which assistance is being requested on the BRAC announcement date which is May 13, 2005.
- A Non-Appropriative employee who was assigned at installation on the closure/realignment announcement date may also apply. The current BRAC closure/realignment annoucement date is May 13, 2005.
- Also eligible are personnel transferred or terminated within six months prior to the announcement who were owner on May 13, 2005.
- Civilian and military personnel on an overseas tour who transferred within 3 years prior to the announcement and who are homeowners in the area.
- Civilian employee homeowners on an overseas tour with re-employment rights in the area affected by the closure
- A military member homeowner ordered into on-post housing within six months prior to announcement.
- In addition, applicants must be relocated beyond commuting distance from the area.
- All applicants must have been the owner-occupant of the home for which assistance is being requested on the announcement date. To qualify, the applicant must also meet other eligibility requirements.