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Nan Mckay Housing Choice Voucher Specialist Exam Questions And Answers 2024
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Owner responsibilities - correct answer ✅Selects and screens tenants Enforces lease State responsibilities - correct answer ✅Passes legislation establishing PHAS PHA administrative plan - correct answer ✅establishes local policies for administering the HCV program 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 Live in aide - correct answer ✅would not be living in the unit except to provide necessary supportive services
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 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
Mixed family - correct answer ✅Citizens + eligible noncitizens/non-eligible non-citizens To declare citizenship/national status: - correct answer ✅complete signed declaration (section 214 status) Section 214 - correct answer ✅to declare citizenship/national status When is income eligibility not tested? - correct answer ✅After lease-up/admission Student rule for eligibility - correct answer ✅Cannot give assistance to someone who:
PHA must give owner these records: - correct answer ✅current/prior family addresses current/prior landlord names + addresses (if known) Owner is responsible for: - correct answer ✅Screening tenant's behavior/suitability for tenancy PHA may not approve tenancy until: - correct answer ✅Unit eligible HQS Tenancy addendum included Reasonable rent Family share !> 40% monthly adjusted income Ineligible units - correct answer ✅Public housing
project-based units health facilities educational facilities criminal facilities owner occupied units Initial lease can be less than a year if: - correct answer ✅shorter term would improve housing opportunity shorter term is prevailing market practice Tenancy addendum includes: - correct answer ✅tenancy requirements for programs Can tenancy be terminated during the initial term by owner? - correct answer ✅Not without good cause (contract reqs etc)
When is rent reasonableness conducted? - correct answer ✅1. Before approving initial rent
but NOT the timing of the move HAP payments to owner during the month of the move: - correct answer ✅Owner keeps HAP for that month New owner also gets HAP Not considered duplicative subsidy in this instance Family breakup involving DV etc: who does assistance go to? - correct answer ✅Assistance goes to victim Time limit for life-threatening HQS violation - correct answer ✅24 hours Family causes HQS violation - correct answer ✅Family's responsibility, can result in termination factors when determining denial/termination bc of action or failure to act by family members - correct answer ✅seriousness
PHA not bound by hearing decision if: - correct answer ✅PHA not required to provide opportunity for informal hearing Matter exceeds authority of person conducting hearing Decision made contrary to HUD regulations/reqs, or violates fed/state/local law If family submits an application and is in residence of the initial PHA If the family submits an application and is not in residence - correct answer ✅they can exercise full portability rights they do not have portability rights until after the first year unless the initial PHA is good with it If portability exercised: Initial/Receiving PHA income limits are used [WHICH ONE] - correct answer ✅Receiving
If person wants to port a PHA can/cannot refuse [WHICH ONE] - correct answer ✅cannot If receiving voucher does not expire 30 days before the initial pha's voucher expires: receiving/initial PHA decides whether to grant extension [WHICH ONE] - correct answer ✅receiving Who has denial/termination rights - initial or receiving? - correct answer ✅both Income must include: - correct answer ✅all family members, even those temporarily absent Dependent exclusion: - correct answer ✅income from minors benefits/non-earned income paid to minors asset income of minor is counted as income earnings in excess of $480 from full-time students 18+ is not included
Amounts received under HUD-funded training program are/are not counted in income [CHOOSE] - correct answer ✅are not Incremental income from employment training - correct answer ✅increase between welfare and earning of family member prior and welfare/earnings after enrollment in training programs so: if welfare stops and training program money is more, count just the welfare money going fwd Earned income disallowance - correct answer ✅self-sufficiency incentives for persons with disabilities (disallowance of increase in annual income) Calculating EID - correct answer ✅Determine the annual income prior to change Calculate annual income of EID-qualified person after qualifying
Any increase attributable to employment is the incremental increase to be excluded Amount in savings and checking accounts - how to determine? - correct answer ✅PHAs must establish policy on how to determine value PHAs may elect to count - current or average balance One-time lump sums are considered once: - correct answer ✅retained and verified Cash value = - correct answer ✅market value - expense to convert to cash Anticipated incomes from asset - correct answer ✅market value x interest rate Dependent allowance: - correct answer ✅$480 for each family member who is: Under 18 years of age, or
What is the minimum rent requirement range? - correct answer ✅0- Payment standard looks at either family unit size or size of dwelling unit size - which one? - correct answer ✅lower of the two If payment standard is increased, it will apply at: - correct answer ✅the effective date of the next regular recert after effective date of increase Max family share - correct answer ✅40% AMI HUD - correct answer ✅Allocates funds, develops regulations and procedures, contracts with PHAs to carry them out, and monitors PHA performance & compliance. Lease - correct answer ✅The contract between a tenant and a landlord
HUD Notices - correct answer ✅Which of the following has a shelf life (usually one year unless extended)? Administrative Plan - correct answer ✅HUD-required written plan that establishes local PHA policies for administering the HCV program, provides daily guidance to PHA staff, must be adopted and approved by the board, and must be submitted to HUD. Voucher/HUD-52646 - correct answer ✅Contract between family and PHA. Initially issued for at least 60 calendar days. Describes family obligations Is issued at initial admission and for moves Authorizes the family to search for a unit Tenant-based Subsidy - correct answer ✅Type of assistance where families choose their units. HAP Contract/HUD-52641 - correct answer ✅Contract between the owner and the PHA. Begins on the first day of lease.