Under the HUD-VASH Program, applicants/participants may port. The applicant/participant can live in the juriscdiction of another PHA if the referring Veterans Administration Medical Center (VAMC) or a VAMC in another part of the country can provide case management. The referring VAMC for MSHDA is the Veterans Administration's Detroit Medical Center.
rPHAs are required to bill the iPHA.
If the veteran family wishes to move a long distance with a VASH voucher (i.e. Michigan to Florida), the move is permissable if the rPHA can serve the family and the PHA partnering with the VAMC in the new location has an available HUD-VASH Voucher. In this case, the rPHA must absorb the family.
The rPHA must enter "VASH" on line 2n of the Family Report Form (HUD-50058). This code must remain on the HUD-50058 for the duration of the HUD-VASH family's participation in the program. The rPHA must also complete 12e (billing amount) and 12f (Initial PHAs code) on the HUD-50058.
HUD-VASH vouchers must have an initial term of at least 120 days.
For short-distance portability cases, an attachment to the HUD-52665 must be used that will notify the rPHA of its responsibilities under the HUD-VASH Program. This form is available at http://www.hud.gov/offices/pih/programs/hcv/vash/
A PHA may only deny VASH assistance if the family is over-income or if any member of the household is subject to a lifetime registration requirement under a state sex offender registration program. PHAs may not deny assistance for the VASH Program for any other reason.