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SNAP CERTIFICATION MANUAL – APPENDIX Q

Chart 2 – Covered Self-Employment SSA Quarters of Coverage History System Chart 2 – Covered Self-Employment Type of Self-Employment Year Coverage Began Farmers 1955 Materially participating (contributing) farmers 1956 Professional groups excluding lawyers, dentists, doctors, and other medical groups 1955 Ministers - elective 1955 Ministers - compulsory 1968 Lawyers, dentists and other medical groups excluding doctors of medicine 1965 Doctors of medicine 1965 American citizens employed in the US by foreign governments 1961 Direct Sellers (house to house salespersons) 1983 Real estate agents 1983 Newspaper and shopping news distributors 1994