HCV SPECIALIST EVALUATION EXAM 2026 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔The written contract between HUD and the PHA UBER which HUD agrees to
provide funding for the program, and the PHA agrees to comply with HUD requirements
- ✔✔Annual Contributions Contract (ACC)
✔✔A HUD required written plan that establishes local PHA policies for administering the
HCV program - ✔✔Administrative Plan
✔✔HUD definition of disability - ✔✔Narrower definition of a person with disabilities used
for purposes of receiving preferences and deductions
✔✔ADA/504/HFA definition of disability - ✔✔Broader definition of disability for purposes
of granting a reasonable accommodation request
✔✔Tenant based-assistance - ✔✔Type of assistance where tenant choose their units
✔✔Project based-assistance - ✔✔Type of assistance where families live in a building
with a subsidy attached to it
✔✔What is the correct governing order of housing? - ✔✔Congress
Department of HUD
Office of PIH
State Government
PHA
Owner
Participants
✔✔Who provides income and family information to PHA, pay tenant portion of rent and
utilities to owner, adhere to lease requirements and family obligations - ✔✔Participant
✔✔Who passes authorizing legislation and appropriations bills - ✔✔Congress
✔✔Who administers funding according to the ACC, establishes local policies,
subsidizes decent and affordable housing - ✔✔PHA
✔✔Who selects and screens tenants, receives HAP payments, enforces lease -
✔✔Owner
✔✔Who passes legislation allowing the creation of PHA's? - ✔✔State Government
, ✔✔What is the department of HUD that administers and manages the HCV Program ? -
✔✔Office of PIH
✔✔Who allocates funds, develops regulations, contracts with PHA's, monitors PHA's
performance? - ✔✔Department of HUD
✔✔Must all people who express a desire to participate in the program be given the
opportunity to apply for assistance whenever the wait-list is open? - ✔✔yes
✔✔What are the 3 ways in which a PHA must notify an applicant if they are ineligible in
writing? - ✔✔-Reason(s) for the determination
-Family's right to an informal review
-How to arrange for the review
✔✔Can PHA's admit special admissions families when HUD awards funding that is
targeted for families living in specified units? - ✔✔yes
✔✔What are two examples of program funding that may be targeted for a family living in
a "Specified Unit"? - ✔✔-Families displaced because of demolition or disposition of a
PIH project
-When HUD sells, forecloses or demolishes a project
✔✔PHA's must obtain verification of eligibility no more than _____ days BEFORE initial
issuance of voucher. - ✔✔60
✔✔What does HUD define an elderly family as? - ✔✔A family whose head (including
co-head), spouse, or sole member is atleast 62 years old.
✔✔Who is exempt from the SSN disclosure requirement? - ✔✔-Noncontending family
members in a mixed family receiving prorated assistance
-People currently in the program who didn't previously provide it atleast 62 years old
before January 31, 2010.
-Household members who have already provided a valid SSN prior to January 31, 2010.
✔✔For HCV applicant families, the SSN for each house household member (except
_____________ persons), must be disclosed and documented when program eligibility
is determined. - ✔✔noncontending; true
✔✔If a child under the age of 6 has been added to the applicant household within
__________________ prior to the date of the voucher issuance, an otherwise eligible
family may be admitted to the program. - ✔✔six months; true
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔The written contract between HUD and the PHA UBER which HUD agrees to
provide funding for the program, and the PHA agrees to comply with HUD requirements
- ✔✔Annual Contributions Contract (ACC)
✔✔A HUD required written plan that establishes local PHA policies for administering the
HCV program - ✔✔Administrative Plan
✔✔HUD definition of disability - ✔✔Narrower definition of a person with disabilities used
for purposes of receiving preferences and deductions
✔✔ADA/504/HFA definition of disability - ✔✔Broader definition of disability for purposes
of granting a reasonable accommodation request
✔✔Tenant based-assistance - ✔✔Type of assistance where tenant choose their units
✔✔Project based-assistance - ✔✔Type of assistance where families live in a building
with a subsidy attached to it
✔✔What is the correct governing order of housing? - ✔✔Congress
Department of HUD
Office of PIH
State Government
PHA
Owner
Participants
✔✔Who provides income and family information to PHA, pay tenant portion of rent and
utilities to owner, adhere to lease requirements and family obligations - ✔✔Participant
✔✔Who passes authorizing legislation and appropriations bills - ✔✔Congress
✔✔Who administers funding according to the ACC, establishes local policies,
subsidizes decent and affordable housing - ✔✔PHA
✔✔Who selects and screens tenants, receives HAP payments, enforces lease -
✔✔Owner
✔✔Who passes legislation allowing the creation of PHA's? - ✔✔State Government
, ✔✔What is the department of HUD that administers and manages the HCV Program ? -
✔✔Office of PIH
✔✔Who allocates funds, develops regulations, contracts with PHA's, monitors PHA's
performance? - ✔✔Department of HUD
✔✔Must all people who express a desire to participate in the program be given the
opportunity to apply for assistance whenever the wait-list is open? - ✔✔yes
✔✔What are the 3 ways in which a PHA must notify an applicant if they are ineligible in
writing? - ✔✔-Reason(s) for the determination
-Family's right to an informal review
-How to arrange for the review
✔✔Can PHA's admit special admissions families when HUD awards funding that is
targeted for families living in specified units? - ✔✔yes
✔✔What are two examples of program funding that may be targeted for a family living in
a "Specified Unit"? - ✔✔-Families displaced because of demolition or disposition of a
PIH project
-When HUD sells, forecloses or demolishes a project
✔✔PHA's must obtain verification of eligibility no more than _____ days BEFORE initial
issuance of voucher. - ✔✔60
✔✔What does HUD define an elderly family as? - ✔✔A family whose head (including
co-head), spouse, or sole member is atleast 62 years old.
✔✔Who is exempt from the SSN disclosure requirement? - ✔✔-Noncontending family
members in a mixed family receiving prorated assistance
-People currently in the program who didn't previously provide it atleast 62 years old
before January 31, 2010.
-Household members who have already provided a valid SSN prior to January 31, 2010.
✔✔For HCV applicant families, the SSN for each house household member (except
_____________ persons), must be disclosed and documented when program eligibility
is determined. - ✔✔noncontending; true
✔✔If a child under the age of 6 has been added to the applicant household within
__________________ prior to the date of the voucher issuance, an otherwise eligible
family may be admitted to the program. - ✔✔six months; true
