Cops Pinch Section 8 Tenant For Allegedly Allowing Son & His Girlfriend To Live In Apartment w/out Notifying Housing Authority & Failing To Report Add'l Household Income While Scoring Over $30K In Housing & Utilities Subsidies

In Monroe County, Pennsylvania, the Pocono Record reports:

• A Tobyhanna woman is charged with theft by deception for not reporting income while living in Section 8 housing, according to the Monroe County District Attorney’s Office.
  
  Lisa Gosa, 47, of Bumble Bee Way, was charged with theft by deception-false impression and theft by deception-fail to correct, both felonies.
  
  The DA was notified by the Housing Authority of Monroe County of an investigation it started on Gosa concerning Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program fraud and people living with Gosa not authorized by the housing authority to be living with her, according to court records.
  
  She failed to report income coming into the household as well, court records said.
  
  Gosa had received $31,500 in rental assistance and utility assistance that she was not entitled to, court papers alleged.
  
  Section 8 HCVP is intended to assist low- to very-low-income households in obtaining decent housing. Subsidies are based on the size, composition and the income of the household. Gosa had allegedly been living with her son and his girlfriend, but hadn't told the housing authority.
  
  Gosa was interviewed by DA investigators, who told her they knew other people have been living with her, court papers said, and showed domestic dispute complaints between her, her son and his girlfriend.
  
  Gosa said her son’s girlfriend was living with her on and off since February 2014, court papers said, and that she worked at Kalahari water park for a time, but doesn’t currently work there and doesn’t live with Gosa any longer.
  
  According to police reports, the girlfriend said Gosa had invited her to live with the family.

Source: Tobyhanna woman accused of Section 8 housing theft.