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SNAP CERTIFICATION MANUAL – SECTION 8000 8700 Certification Period 8000 Initial Application Process

o This includes households that intend to leave the State of Arkansas in the near future. o This also includes any household that contains an Able- Bodied Adult (ABA) member who is subject to the Requirement to Work, and the member has received one (1) or two (2) countable months while not fulfilling the requirement to work.

8720 Prioritizing Assignment of Certification Period SNAP Manual 09/01/2022 The following households will be assigned a one (1) or two (2) month certification period: • Households certified under the expedited provisions when verification is postponed. • Households expected to become ineligible in the first or second month of certification.

Households residing in a substance abuse treatment center will be assigned a one (1), two (2), or three (3) month certification period. A four (4) month certification period, as explained in SNAP 8710, will be assigned to the following households: • Certain homeless households • Migrant and seasonal farm-worker households • Households with strikers • Households with self-employment income when the eligibility worker is awaiting verification of the last year’s self- employment income • Households containing an Able-Bodied Adult subject to the Requirement to Work or who may become subject to the Requirement to Work. Households where all members are Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients where at least one (1) member has earned income will be assigned a six (6) month certification period and are subject to limited reporting, excluding SSI households mentioned in SNAP 8710.2. An Elderly Simplified Application Project (ESAP) household composed of adults aged sixty (60) or older or adults living with a disability that do not receive a child support deduction, earned income, or include minor