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<br /> Administrative Plan 7/1/2025 Page 18-32 <br />Termination of Assistance <br />A VASH family’s PBV assistance must be terminated for failure to participate in case <br />management when required by the VA. However, the PHA may allow the veteran family to <br />receive a regular (non-VASH) tenant-based voucher or PBV unit instead of the family’s <br />assistance being terminated. In this case, the PHA may: <br /> Substitute the family’s unit on the PBV HAP contract for another unit (the PHA may, in <br />conjunction with such substitution, add the original unit to the PBV HAP contract with a <br />non-VASH voucher if it is possible to do so; <br /> Remove the unit from the PBV HAP contract so the family may remain with tenant-based <br />assistance, if the family and the owner agree to use the tenant-based voucher in the unit; or <br /> Change the unit’s status in the PBV HAP contract from a unit exclusively made available for <br />VASH to a regular PBV unit, if doing so is allowable under program rules. <br />If the PHA will not allow the veteran to receive a regular (non-VASH) tenant-based voucher or <br />PBV unit instead of the family’s assistance being terminated, then upon notification by the VA <br />of the family’s failure to participate in VA-required case management, the PHA must provide the <br />family a reasonable period of time (as established by the PHA) to vacate the unit. <br />SAHA Policy <br />If the family fails to participate in case management when required by the VA, SAHA <br />will terminate the family’s assistance. The family will have 120 days to vacate the unit, <br />starting from the proposed termination action. SAHA will terminate assistance to the <br />family at the earlier of (1) the time the family vacates or (2) the expiration of the 120-day <br />period. If the family fails to vacate the unit within the established time, the owner may <br />evict the family. If the owner does not evict the family, SAHA will remove the unit from <br />the HAP contract or amend the HAP contract to substitute a different unit in the project if <br />the project is partially assisted. SAHA may add the removed unit back onto the HAP <br />contract after the ineligible family vacates the property. <br />Moves <br /> If a VASH family is eligible to move from its PBV unit after a year of PBV assistance, the PHA <br />will generally follow policies in Chapter 17. However, if there is no VASH tenant-based voucher <br />available at the time the family requests to move, the PHA’s actions depend on whether the <br />family still requires case management. <br /> The PHA may require a family that still requires case management to wait for a VASH <br />tenant-based voucher for a period not to exceed 180 days. If a HUD-VASH tenant-based <br />voucher is still not available after 180 days, the family must be allowed to move using its <br />VASH voucher as tenant-based assistance. Alternatively, the PHA may allow the family to <br />move using its VASH voucher as tenant-based assistance without having to meet this 180- <br />day waiting period. In either case, the PHA may either amend the PBV HAP contract to <br />replace the assistance in the PBV unit with one of its regular vouchers if the unit is eligible <br />for a regular PBV or the PHA and owner may agree to temporarily remove the unit from the <br />HAP contract. <br />EXHIBIT 1