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SNAP CERTIFICATION MANUAL – SECTIONS 1000 1621.7.10 Sponsored Alien Reports/Reimbursement

1600 Determining Household Composition that is being received at the time that the household containing the sponsored alien member applies or is recertified for participation, reduced by: • A twenty percent (20%) earned income amount for the portion of the income determined as earned income of the sponsor and the sponsor’s spouse; and • An amount equal to the SNAP monthly gross income eligibility limit for a household equal in size to the sponsor, the sponsor’s spouse, and any other person who is claimed or could be claimed by the sponsor or the sponsor’s spouse as a dependent for Federal income tax purposes. Any income given to the eligible sponsored alien by the sponsor or the sponsor's spouse is considered income, but only to the extent that the money exceeds the amount deemed to the eligible sponsored alien. The resources deemed as available to the eligible sponsored alien will be the total amount of the resources of the sponsor and sponsor's spouse (that are otherwise countable for SNAP) reduced by one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500). NOTE: The amount to be deemed for indigent aliens differs from these procedures. See SNAP 1621.7.4. If a sponsored alien can verify that their sponsor is the sponsor of other aliens, the State agency must divide the income and resources deemed under the provisions listed above by the number of such sponsored aliens. If the information needed to verify that the sponsor is sponsoring other aliens is not provided, all the sponsor’s income and resources will be deemed to the alien. The State agency must use the same procedure to determine the amount of deemed income and resources to exclude in the case of a sponsored alien or a citizen child of a sponsored alien who is exempt from deeming as listed in SNAP 1621.7. Deemed income and resources will continue to be used in the household’s budget for the entire deeming period. The deeming period is three (3) years from the alien’s date of entry into the United States. 1621.7.3 Battered Aliens SNAP Manual 07/01/2026 Section deleted 07/01/2026 1621.7.4 Indigent Aliens SNAP Manual 07/01/2026 A sponsored alien is classified as an indigent alien if the sum of the sponsored alien’s own income, the cash contributions of the sponsor and others, and the value of any in-kind assistance from the sponsor and others does not exceed the gross income limit for the alien’s household size. See the current SNAP Basis of Issuance Tables for the gross income limit for the appropriate household size. The eligibility worker must determine the amount of income and other assistance provided in the month of application. If the alien is indigent, the only amount that is to be deemed to the alien will be the amount actually provided by the sponsor to the alien. This limited deeming procedure will begin on the date of this determination and will end twelve (12) months after the date of determination. Each indigence determination will be renewable for an additional twelve-month period.