"TASS Will Not Be Authorized to State..."

TASS will in fact be phased out as of September.

To clarify, the ex-Soviet news service is still going strong. So is an astronomy project called The Amateur Sky Survey. So, apparently, is the Tucson Animation Screening Society.

But HUD's Tenant Assessment Subsystem (also abbrevated "TASS"), which verifies tenants' Social Security pension and disability benefit income, is being folded into the new Enterprise Income Verification (EIV) System, which will do everything TASS did to check up on tenants and more. It not only verifies Social Security and SSI income, but also unemployment benefits, reported wages, and employer-reported new hires.