The state Attorney General's office says the owner and manager of a complex on Lucy Street in Dorchester will no longer make tenants with Section 8 and state rental vouchers pay a $500 upfront fee out of their own pocket just to get an apartment there.

In a filing in Suffolk Superior Court last week, the AG's office said the owners and managers of the Andi South Bay at 4 Lucy St. were charging people who might be eligible for state subsidies to pay a $500 "first month's rent deposit" even before their subsidies were calculated, which means the fee might exceed what they would actually have to pay in rent each month, in violation of state law.

Also, in at least one case, a tenant asked if she could pay the first month's rent with the money she'd be getting from the state and she was told no, her rental application wouldn't be processed until she paid $500 up front, before she got anything from the state.

PSP Partners of Chicago, which owns the building, and Graystar, which manages the 475-unit complex, agreed to basically stop doing all that and to pay $20,000 towards the cost of the state investigation and for possible restitution to any affected tenants.