Described herein are mechanisms and methods that facilitate generation of receiver status message (e.g., acknowledgments and/or negative acknowledgments) before, during, and after a handoff of an access terminal (user equipment) from a first transceiver module to a second transceiver module. A network module can generate receiver status messages during a handoff and informs a target transceiver module of when it can begin to generate receiver status messages for data received from an access terminal.