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SNAP CERTIFICATION MANUAL – SECTION 10000 10200 Receipt of a Notice of Expiration 10210 Contents of the Notice of Expiration/Application for Recertification

• An explanation of the interview requirement and the household’s option to request a face-to-face interview instead of a telephone interview. • An explanation of the consequences of failure to comply with the notice of expiration. • An explanation of the household’s right to request an administrative hearing. The recertification packet is system-generated on the fifteenth day of the month prior to the last month of certification and is mailed directly to the household on the sixteenth day. The following information will be printed on the recertification application: • Casehead name and budget unit ID number • Household’s address • County office name, address, and telephone number • The date eligibility ends, the last day of the last month of the certification period • Due date, the first day of the last month of the certification period All contents of the recertification application and explanation of rights and responsibilities will be available online. See SNAP 10900. A recertification packet must be prepared and issued to the household when: • The household is certified for one (1) month or for two (2) months; for example, expedited households, in the second month of the application period; or • When the household is certified for two (2) or four (4) months and the date of certification occurs too late for a recertification packet to be automatically generated for the household; or • When there is a change of address processed after extract date. All recertification packets must contain the same information no matter how the packet is prepared (manually or system generated), including a recertification application and an explanation of rights and responsibilities. Along with the recertification packet, households certified for one (1) or two (2) months and issued a Notice of SNAP Recertification Appointment to schedule a date and time for a telephone, virtual, or face to face interview. See SNAP 10510.