NAN MCKAY HCV SPECIALIST EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SOLVED
100% CORRECT!! 2025
Owner responsibilities - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Selects and screens tenants
Enforces lease
State responsibilities - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Passes legislation establishing
PHAS
PHA administrative plan - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔establishes local policies for
administering the HCV program
HUD vs ADA definition of disability - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔HUD definition is more
specific, used for eligibility determination and allowances/deductions
ADA definition - broader, used for reasonable accommodations
Live in aide - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔would not be living in the unit except to
provide necessary supportive services
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,Occupancy cycle - 🧠 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
Certification of preference + waitlist addition - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔At time of
initial app, need only certify preference eligibility (not verify)
Place on waitlist according to preference claimed
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,eligibility verification requirement: X number of days - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔60
day window to obtain verification docs
elderly family: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔head or spouse is 62+
disabled family: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔head/spouse is disabled
two+ people in hh are disabled
one+ people w/ one+ live-in aides
exemptions from SSN disclosure - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Noncontending family
member (someone not declaring citizenship/eligible non-citizen status)
Noncontending family member - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔someone not declaring
citizenship/eligible non-citizen status
exempt from SSN disclosure
Mixed family - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Citizens + eligible noncitizens/non-eligible
non-citizens
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, To declare citizenship/national status: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔complete signed
declaration (section 214 status)
Section 214 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔to declare citizenship/national status
When is income eligibility not tested? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔After lease-
up/admission
Student rule for eligibility - 🧠 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,
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SOLVED
100% CORRECT!! 2025
Owner responsibilities - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Selects and screens tenants
Enforces lease
State responsibilities - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Passes legislation establishing
PHAS
PHA administrative plan - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔establishes local policies for
administering the HCV program
HUD vs ADA definition of disability - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔HUD definition is more
specific, used for eligibility determination and allowances/deductions
ADA definition - broader, used for reasonable accommodations
Live in aide - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔would not be living in the unit except to
provide necessary supportive services
COPYRIGHT©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER:
619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 1
,Occupancy cycle - 🧠 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
Certification of preference + waitlist addition - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔At time of
initial app, need only certify preference eligibility (not verify)
Place on waitlist according to preference claimed
COPYRIGHT©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER:
619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 2
,eligibility verification requirement: X number of days - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔60
day window to obtain verification docs
elderly family: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔head or spouse is 62+
disabled family: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔head/spouse is disabled
two+ people in hh are disabled
one+ people w/ one+ live-in aides
exemptions from SSN disclosure - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Noncontending family
member (someone not declaring citizenship/eligible non-citizen status)
Noncontending family member - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔someone not declaring
citizenship/eligible non-citizen status
exempt from SSN disclosure
Mixed family - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Citizens + eligible noncitizens/non-eligible
non-citizens
COPYRIGHT©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER:
619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 3
, To declare citizenship/national status: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔complete signed
declaration (section 214 status)
Section 214 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔to declare citizenship/national status
When is income eligibility not tested? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔After lease-
up/admission
Student rule for eligibility - 🧠 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,
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