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SNAP CERTIFICATION MANUAL – SECTION 4000 7B4800 Vehicles

44B4830 Vehicles Owned by Categorically Eligible Households

4830 Vehicles Owned by Categorically Eligible Households SNAP Manual 07/01/01 If a household is categorically eligible under the definition in SNAP 1920, all resources, including any vehicles, licensed or unlicensed, owned by household members, will be excluded.

4840 Excluded Vehicles SNAP Manual 01/01/07 Each SNAP household may exclude at least one vehicle, licensed or unlicensed. If a household owns only one vehicle, that vehicle will be excluded. The DHS county office worker will document that the household owns only one vehicle and that vehicle is excluded. If a household owns more than one vehicle, the county office worker must establish if any of those vehicles can be excluded under the rules provided below. Under these rules, any vehicle, licensed or unlicensed, owned by the household will be excluded as a resource if: • The vehicle is necessary for the employment of a household member. Vehicles necessary for employment include only those used for job-related travel other than travel back and forth to the job site. This includes vehicles such as, but not limited to, vehicles used by traveling salespeople or migrant farm workers following the job stream or home health aides traveling from home to home. This exclusion applies during temporary periods of unemployment when the vehicle is in use. • The vehicle is classified as an income producing vehicles. Income producing vehicles are those vehicles used primarily (over 50% of the time) for income producing purposes or those vehicles annually producing income consistent with their fair market value even if used only on a seasonal basis. See SNAP 4870 for instructions on determining fair market value. This exclusion applies during temporary periods of unemployment when the vehicle is not in use. For example, a taxi retains its exclusion while the driver is ill and unable to work, or a migrant’s vehicle retains its exclusion if the migrant temporarily leaves the job stream. A vehicle essential to the self-employment of a household member engaged in a farming operation may continue to be excluded as a resource for one year from the date the farm operation was terminated. See SNAP 4440 for additional information. • The vehicle is used as the household’s residence. This includes boats, campers, travel trailers, and travel homes when used as the household’s principal residence. • The vehicle is used to transport an individual with disability household member. (This exclusion will not apply to disabilities based strictly on a mental condition.) Any vehicle