HUD HCV Guidebook § 3.1.2

The program definition of disability is used for the purposes of determining program eligibility, for example, in
determining allowances and deductions for families with disabilities. However, a different definition of
disability is used to determine whether a person is an individual with a disability under Federal civil rights
laws.69

The HUD program definition of “person with disabilities”70 may be used for eligibility for designated housing
and when reporting disability status on form HUD-50058 that is collected in the Public and Indian Housing
Information Center (PIC) or successor system. The HUD program definition incorporates both the Social
Security Administration definition of a person with disabilities found at 42 U.S.C. 423, and the definition of
developmental disability in the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act. Persons who have
acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) or any conditions arising from the AIDS virus are not excluded
from this definition. The HUD program definition does not include a disability based solely on any drug or
alcohol dependence.71