HUD COVID-19 Waivers
Learn More about HUD's COVID Waiver Requirements
| Waiver reference in HUD notice | Waiver summary/Relevant dates | Enacted | Expires | Extended Availability Date |
| PH and HCV-1: PHA 5-Year and Annual Plan Submission Dates: Significant Amdendment Requirements | Allows PHAs alternative deadlines. | 4/10/2020 | 12/31/2020 | NA |
| PH and HCV-2: Family Income and Compoition: Delayed Annual Examination | Allows PHAs to delay annual reexmination of HCV and public housing families. | 4/10/2020 | 12/31/2020 | 6/30/2021 - for reexaminations due between 1/1/21 and 6/30/21 |
| PH and HCV-3: Family Income and Composition: Annual Examination; Income Verification Requirement | Waives PHA to forgo third-party verification requirements for annual reexamination, including the required use of EIV. | 4/10/2020 | 12/31/2020 | 6/30/2021 |
| PH and HCV-4: Family Income and Composition: Interim Examinations | Waives PHA to forgo third-party verification requirements for interim reexamination, including the required use of EIV. | 4/10/2020 | 12/31/2020 | 6/30/2021 |
| PH and HCV-5: Enterprise Income Verification (EIV) Monitoring | Waives the mandatory EIV monitoring requirement. | 4/10/2020 | 12/31/2020 | 6/30/2021 |
| PH and HCV-6: Family Self-Sufficiency(FSS) Contract of Partificpation: Contract Extension | HUD has made a determination that the circumstances surrounding COVID-19 quality as"good cause" to extend family contracts. | 4/10/2020 | 12/31/2020 | 6/30/2021 |
| HCV-1: Administrative Plan | PHAs can revise Admin. Plan without board approval through 9/30/2020 PHAs should work with Boards to approve changes by expiration date. | 4/10/2020 | 12/31/2020 | Informally adopt changes by 3/31/21; formally adopt changes by 6/30/2021 |
| HCV-2: PHA Oral Briefing | Waives the requirement for PHA to brief households new to HCV or PBV in person, allowing briefings and materials to be presented by electronic or other means. | 4/10/2020 | 12/31/2020 | 6/30/2021 |
| HCV-3: Term of Voucher: Extensions of Term | Allows PHA to provide extenstions even though it has been unable to formally amend its policy in the Admin. plan. | 4/10/2020 | 12/31/2020 | 6/30/2021 |
| HCV-5: Absence from Unit | Give PHA's discretion when a household is absent from a unit longer than 180 days. | 4/10/2020 | 12/31/2020 | 6/30/2021 |
| HCV-6: Automatic Termination of HAP Contract | Allows PHA to extend the period of time after the last HAP payment is made before the HAP contract terminates automatically. | 4/10/2020 | 12/31/2020 | 6/30/2021 |
| HCV-10: FUP Youth Age Eligilibity to Enter HAP Contract | Allows THA to increase age to 26 for foster youth initial lease up | 4/10/2020 | 12/31/2020 | 6/30/2021 |
| HCV-11: FUP: Length of Assistance for Youth | Allows PHA to suspend terminations of assistance for FUP youth who will reach the 36-month limit between April 10, 2020 and December 31, 2020. | 4/10/2020 | 12/31/2020 | 6/30/2021 |
| HCV-12: Timeframe for Referral | Allows PHAs to accept referrals of otherwise eligible youth who will leave foster care within 120 days | 4/10/2020 | 12/31/2020 | 6/30/2021 |
| HCV-13: Homeownership: Maximum Term of Assistance | Allows THA to extend homeownership assitance for up to 1 additional year | 4/10/2020 | 12/31/2020 | 6/30/2021 |
| HCV-14: Mandatory Removal of Unit from PBV HAP Contract | Allows PHAs to keep a unit on a PBV HAP contract after 180 days of zero housing assistance payments to the unit owner on behalf of the family residing in the unit. | 4/10/2020 | 12/31/2020 | 6/30/2021 |
| HQS-1: Initial Inspection Requirement | Allows PHA to place a unit under HAP contract and commence making payments without standard requirement. PHA's may rely on the owner's self-certifciation of the unit. Where self-certification was used, PHAS must inspect the unit no later than the one-year anniversary of date of owner's certification. | 4/10/2020 | 12/31/2020 | 6/30/2021 |
| HQS-2: Project-Based Voucher(PBV) Pre-HAP Contract Inspections: PHA Acceptance of Completed Units | Allows property owner of a unit to self-certify that there are no life-threatening deficiencies in the unit. Where self-certification was used, PHAs must inspect the unit no later than the one-year anniversary of date of owner's certification. | 4/10/2020 | 12/31/2020 | 6/30/2021 |
| HQS-3: Initial Inspection: Non-Life-Threatening Deficiences (NLT) Option | Changes PHAs from withholding housing assistance payments from the owner if the non-life-threatening conditions are not corrected within 30 days now up to 60 days. | 4/10/2020 | 12/31/2020 | 6/30/2021 |
| HQS-4: HQS Initial Inspection Requirement: Alternative Inspection Option | Allows PHA the occupancy of a unit prior to an initial inspection if the unit has passed an alternative inspection in the past 24 months. Where alternative options was used, PHAs must inspect the unit as soon as reasonably possible but no later than the 1-year anniversary date of the owner's certification. | 4/10/2020 | 12/31/2020 | 6/30/2021 |
| HQS-5: HQS Inspection Requirement: Biennial Insepction | Allowing PHAs to delay biennial inspections of both tenant-based and PBV units. If delayed, PHA must conduct inspection as soon as possible but no later than one year after the date the biennial inspection would have been required. | 4/10/2020 | 12/31/2020 | Must resume biennial inspections by 6/30/2021 |
| HQS-6: Interim Inspections | Allows PHAs to establish an alternative requirement for both tenant-based and PBV units when the assisted unit does no comply with the HQS. Where self-certification was used, PHS must inspect the unit no later than the one-year anniversary of date of owner's certification. | 4/10/2020 | 12/31/2020 | 6/30/2021 |
| HQS-7: PBV Turnover Unit Inspections | Allows PHAs to use alternative inspection options prior to providing assistance to a new family in a PBV contract unit. | 4/10/2020 | 12/31/2020 | 6/30/2021 |
| HQS-9: HQS Quality Control Inspection | Provides for a suspension of the requirement for QC sampling inspections. | 4/10/2020 | 12/31/2020 | 6/30/2021 |
| PH-5: Community Service and Self-sufficiency Requirement (CSSR) | Temproraliy suspends the tenant community service requirement. Tenant will not be subject to this requirement until after the households next annual re-certification. | 4/10/2020 | 3/31/2021 | 6/30/2021 |
| PH-10: Tenant Notifications for Changes to Project Rules and Regualtions | Allows PHAs to provide adequate notification to impacted families within 30 days of making such changes to policies, rules and special charges to families. | 4/10/2020 | 12/31/2020 | 6/30/2021 |
| PH-12: Public Housing Agency Annual Self-Inspection | Waiving the requirement that the PHA must inspect each project during CY 2020. | 4/10/2020 | 12/31/2020 | 6/30/2021 |
| 12a: PHA Reporting Requirements on HUD Form 50058 | Allows PHA for 90-days to submit form HUD 50058 after the effective date of action to HUD. | 4/10/2020 | 12/31/2020 | 6/30/2021 |