Nan Mckay Housing Choice Voucher Specialist
Comprehensive Resource To Help You Ace 2026-2027 Exams
Includes Frequently Tested Questions With ELABORATED
100% Correct COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Guaranteed Pass First Attempt!! Current Update!!
1. Owner responsibilities - Correct Answer: Selects and screens tenants
Enforces lease
2. State responsibilities - Correct Answer: Passes legislation establishing
PHAS
3. PHA administrative plan - Correct Answer: establishes local policies for
administering the HCV program
4. HUD vs ADA definition of disability - Correct Answer: HUD definition is
more specific, used for eligibility determination and allowances/deductions
ADA definition - broader, used for reasonable accommodations
5. Live in aide - Correct Answer: would not be living in the unit except to
provide necessary supportive services
,6. Occupancy cycle - Correct Answer: Intake - preapplication, waiting list,
needs estimation, final eligibility determination
Initial lease-up - briefing & voucher issuance, RFTA and lease approval
submitted, HQS inspection, approval & execution, moves
Annual Activities - recerts, HQS (biennially), rent adjustment
Moves
Interim activities - interem recerts, HQS compliance
Terminations - HCV violation, lease termination, HAP contract termination
7. Certification of preference + waitlist addition - Correct Answer: At time
of initial app, need only certify preference eligibility (not verify)
Place on waitlist according to preference claimed
8. eligibility verification requirement: X number of days - Correct Answer:
60 day window to obtain verification docs
9. elderly family: - Correct Answer: head or spouse is 62+
,10.disabled family: - Correct Answer: head/spouse is disabled
two+ people in hh are disabled
one+ people w/ one+ live-in aides
11.exemptions from SSN disclosure - Correct Answer: Noncontending
family member (someone not declaring citizenship/eligible non-citizen
status)
12.Noncontending family member - Correct Answer: someone not
declaring citizenship/eligible non-citizen status
exempt from SSN disclosure
13.Mixed family - Correct Answer: Citizens + eligible noncitizens/non-
eligible non-citizens
14.To declare citizenship/national status: - Correct Answer: complete
signed declaration (section 214 status)
15.Section 214 - Correct Answer: to declare citizenship/national status
16.When is income eligibility not tested? - Correct Answer: After lease-
up/admission
, 17.Student rule for eligibility - Correct Answer: Cannot give assistance to
someone who:
• Is enrolled as a student at an
institution of higher education;
• Is under the age of 24;
• Is not a veteran of the United
States military;
• Is unmarried;
• Does not have a dependent
child;
• Is not a person with disabilities,
• Student and parents are both income eligible (80% AMI) or student is
independent/absent from their parents
18.Before beginning denial on basis of criminal/sex-offender status, PHA must -
Correct Answer: Notify household and provide an opportunity to
dispute
19.PHA must deny if applicant fails to: - Correct Answer: sign consent forms
not disclose SSN
no citizens/eligible nationals
20.PHA may deny for - Correct Answer: debts owed
Comprehensive Resource To Help You Ace 2026-2027 Exams
Includes Frequently Tested Questions With ELABORATED
100% Correct COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Guaranteed Pass First Attempt!! Current Update!!
1. Owner responsibilities - Correct Answer: Selects and screens tenants
Enforces lease
2. State responsibilities - Correct Answer: Passes legislation establishing
PHAS
3. PHA administrative plan - Correct Answer: establishes local policies for
administering the HCV program
4. HUD vs ADA definition of disability - Correct Answer: HUD definition is
more specific, used for eligibility determination and allowances/deductions
ADA definition - broader, used for reasonable accommodations
5. Live in aide - Correct Answer: would not be living in the unit except to
provide necessary supportive services
,6. Occupancy cycle - Correct Answer: Intake - preapplication, waiting list,
needs estimation, final eligibility determination
Initial lease-up - briefing & voucher issuance, RFTA and lease approval
submitted, HQS inspection, approval & execution, moves
Annual Activities - recerts, HQS (biennially), rent adjustment
Moves
Interim activities - interem recerts, HQS compliance
Terminations - HCV violation, lease termination, HAP contract termination
7. Certification of preference + waitlist addition - Correct Answer: At time
of initial app, need only certify preference eligibility (not verify)
Place on waitlist according to preference claimed
8. eligibility verification requirement: X number of days - Correct Answer:
60 day window to obtain verification docs
9. elderly family: - Correct Answer: head or spouse is 62+
,10.disabled family: - Correct Answer: head/spouse is disabled
two+ people in hh are disabled
one+ people w/ one+ live-in aides
11.exemptions from SSN disclosure - Correct Answer: Noncontending
family member (someone not declaring citizenship/eligible non-citizen
status)
12.Noncontending family member - Correct Answer: someone not
declaring citizenship/eligible non-citizen status
exempt from SSN disclosure
13.Mixed family - Correct Answer: Citizens + eligible noncitizens/non-
eligible non-citizens
14.To declare citizenship/national status: - Correct Answer: complete
signed declaration (section 214 status)
15.Section 214 - Correct Answer: to declare citizenship/national status
16.When is income eligibility not tested? - Correct Answer: After lease-
up/admission
, 17.Student rule for eligibility - Correct Answer: Cannot give assistance to
someone who:
• Is enrolled as a student at an
institution of higher education;
• Is under the age of 24;
• Is not a veteran of the United
States military;
• Is unmarried;
• Does not have a dependent
child;
• Is not a person with disabilities,
• Student and parents are both income eligible (80% AMI) or student is
independent/absent from their parents
18.Before beginning denial on basis of criminal/sex-offender status, PHA must -
Correct Answer: Notify household and provide an opportunity to
dispute
19.PHA must deny if applicant fails to: - Correct Answer: sign consent forms
not disclose SSN
no citizens/eligible nationals
20.PHA may deny for - Correct Answer: debts owed
