HCV SPECIALIST CORE EXAM 2026 TEST QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Scheduled 90 days prior to expected voucher issuance.
✔✔Required when the PHA is terminating the family for family action or inaction
May request if the family doesn't agree with HAPs explanation of:
Family's annual or adjusted income used to compute HAP
Appropriate utility allowance from schedule used for the family
Voucher size for the family.
Not required for:
Gen policy issues and class grievances
Est. of the utility allowance schedules
Refusal to extend voucher
Decision not to approve unit or lease - ✔✔Informal Hearing
✔✔Process of leasing or purchasing a dwelling unit with tenant-based assistance
outside the jurisdiction of the PHA that initially issues the family it's voucher. -
✔✔Portability
✔✔A PHA:
May prohibit more than one move within the PHA's jurisdiction during any one year
period.
May establish a policy to prohibit moves during the initial lease term.
May prohibit more than one move outside of the PHA's jurisdiction during any one year
period.
Must permit portability if a family moved in violation of the lease due to DV.
If neither the head or spouse already had a legal residence in the PHA's jurisdiction at
the time the family first applied for assistance with the PHA, during the12-month period
from the time the family is admitted to the program:
The family may lease a unit anywhere in the PHA's jurisdiction
The family does not have a right to portability
The initial PHA may choose to allow portability during this Period if the receiving PHA
agrees
Improper denial may result in admin fee reductions - ✔✔Portability Facts 2
✔✔Family Portability Information Form
Send copy of voucher, income verification, and this
, Used for Porting the Voucher. Part I is to be completed by the IHA. Part II is completed
by RHA. - ✔✔HUD-52665
✔✔Family Report
Purpose:
• To collect and retrieve detailed information
• To make computer matching with Social
Security possible
• To enable HUD to project program costs
• To provide information to HUD and Congress and
other interested parties
• To enable HUD to monitor PHA performance
Created every time the Family is certified.
When porting you must send this for participants. Applicants you send it using this
format.
PHA is responsible for completing and transmitting, reviewing error analysis reports,
and correcting errors.
1. New admissions
2. Annual reexamination
3. Interim reexamination
4. Portability move-in (Vouchers only)
5. Portability move-out (Vouchers only)
6. End participation
7. Other change of unit
8. FSS/WTW enrollment, progress update, exits for
the Family Self-Sufficiency or Welfare to Work
Voucher programs
9. Annual Reexamination searching (Vouchers only)
10. Issuance of Voucher (Vouchers onl - ✔✔HUD-50058
✔✔Receiving Housing Authority
Decides whether or not to extend the voucher.
If family decides to not lease in RHA jurisdiction the RHA refers the family back to the
IHA.
Does not determine eligibility for a participant family.
Must suspend the voucher from the date the RFTA is received to the date the RHA
decides whether to approve tenancy.
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Scheduled 90 days prior to expected voucher issuance.
✔✔Required when the PHA is terminating the family for family action or inaction
May request if the family doesn't agree with HAPs explanation of:
Family's annual or adjusted income used to compute HAP
Appropriate utility allowance from schedule used for the family
Voucher size for the family.
Not required for:
Gen policy issues and class grievances
Est. of the utility allowance schedules
Refusal to extend voucher
Decision not to approve unit or lease - ✔✔Informal Hearing
✔✔Process of leasing or purchasing a dwelling unit with tenant-based assistance
outside the jurisdiction of the PHA that initially issues the family it's voucher. -
✔✔Portability
✔✔A PHA:
May prohibit more than one move within the PHA's jurisdiction during any one year
period.
May establish a policy to prohibit moves during the initial lease term.
May prohibit more than one move outside of the PHA's jurisdiction during any one year
period.
Must permit portability if a family moved in violation of the lease due to DV.
If neither the head or spouse already had a legal residence in the PHA's jurisdiction at
the time the family first applied for assistance with the PHA, during the12-month period
from the time the family is admitted to the program:
The family may lease a unit anywhere in the PHA's jurisdiction
The family does not have a right to portability
The initial PHA may choose to allow portability during this Period if the receiving PHA
agrees
Improper denial may result in admin fee reductions - ✔✔Portability Facts 2
✔✔Family Portability Information Form
Send copy of voucher, income verification, and this
, Used for Porting the Voucher. Part I is to be completed by the IHA. Part II is completed
by RHA. - ✔✔HUD-52665
✔✔Family Report
Purpose:
• To collect and retrieve detailed information
• To make computer matching with Social
Security possible
• To enable HUD to project program costs
• To provide information to HUD and Congress and
other interested parties
• To enable HUD to monitor PHA performance
Created every time the Family is certified.
When porting you must send this for participants. Applicants you send it using this
format.
PHA is responsible for completing and transmitting, reviewing error analysis reports,
and correcting errors.
1. New admissions
2. Annual reexamination
3. Interim reexamination
4. Portability move-in (Vouchers only)
5. Portability move-out (Vouchers only)
6. End participation
7. Other change of unit
8. FSS/WTW enrollment, progress update, exits for
the Family Self-Sufficiency or Welfare to Work
Voucher programs
9. Annual Reexamination searching (Vouchers only)
10. Issuance of Voucher (Vouchers onl - ✔✔HUD-50058
✔✔Receiving Housing Authority
Decides whether or not to extend the voucher.
If family decides to not lease in RHA jurisdiction the RHA refers the family back to the
IHA.
Does not determine eligibility for a participant family.
Must suspend the voucher from the date the RFTA is received to the date the RHA
decides whether to approve tenancy.
