HCV SPECIALIST CORE EXAM SET 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Must or May Deny Assistance: Currently owes rent or other amounts to any PHA -
✔✔May deny
✔✔Must or May Deny Assistance: Currently engaging in the use of an illegal drug -
✔✔Must deny
✔✔Must or May Deny Assistance: Family has engaged in or threatened violent or
abusive behavior towards PHA personnel - ✔✔May deny
✔✔Must or May Deny Assistance: Eviction from federally assisted housing in the past 5
years - ✔✔May deny
✔✔Must or May Deny Assistance: Abuse or pattern of abuse of alcohol or illegal drugs
that threatens health, safety, or right to peaceful enjoyment - ✔✔Must deny
✔✔Must or May Deny Assistance: Subject to a lifetime sex offender registration
requirement - ✔✔Must deny
✔✔Applicants must disclose and document Social Security numbers for which
members? - ✔✔All household members except noncontending persons
✔✔Which of the following are ineligible for assistance?
Citizens of the USA
Nationals of the USA
Noncitizen students on a student visa - ✔✔Noncitizen students on a student visa
✔✔The PHA determines the definition of an elderly family, a displaced family, a
disabled family. T/F - ✔✔False
✔✔What is a disabled family? - ✔✔A family whose head (including Cohead), spouse, or
sole member is a person with disabilities
(Often indicated by receiving SSI or SS)
✔✔A mixed family, for purposes of the noncitizen rule, includes: - ✔✔Some eligible
members and some ineligible members
✔✔To be eligible a family must:
Be within the income limit
Be within the asset limit
Have children or be elderly
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Must or May Deny Assistance: Currently owes rent or other amounts to any PHA -
✔✔May deny
✔✔Must or May Deny Assistance: Currently engaging in the use of an illegal drug -
✔✔Must deny
✔✔Must or May Deny Assistance: Family has engaged in or threatened violent or
abusive behavior towards PHA personnel - ✔✔May deny
✔✔Must or May Deny Assistance: Eviction from federally assisted housing in the past 5
years - ✔✔May deny
✔✔Must or May Deny Assistance: Abuse or pattern of abuse of alcohol or illegal drugs
that threatens health, safety, or right to peaceful enjoyment - ✔✔Must deny
✔✔Must or May Deny Assistance: Subject to a lifetime sex offender registration
requirement - ✔✔Must deny
✔✔Applicants must disclose and document Social Security numbers for which
members? - ✔✔All household members except noncontending persons
✔✔Which of the following are ineligible for assistance?
Citizens of the USA
Nationals of the USA
Noncitizen students on a student visa - ✔✔Noncitizen students on a student visa
✔✔The PHA determines the definition of an elderly family, a displaced family, a
disabled family. T/F - ✔✔False
✔✔What is a disabled family? - ✔✔A family whose head (including Cohead), spouse, or
sole member is a person with disabilities
(Often indicated by receiving SSI or SS)
✔✔A mixed family, for purposes of the noncitizen rule, includes: - ✔✔Some eligible
members and some ineligible members
✔✔To be eligible a family must:
Be within the income limit
Be within the asset limit
Have children or be elderly
