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SNAPCERTIFICATION MANUAL – SECTION 12000 12100 Processing Reported Changes – Summary 12110 Intentional Failure to Comply With a Program Requirement

12100 Processing Reported Changes – Summary

SNAP Manual 10/01/03 All reported changes are handled in much the same fashion regardless of the source of the report. For example, a budget prepared as the result of a change in income would be the same for a limited reporting household as for an occasional reporting household This section provides instructions for processing reported changes. Unless otherwise specified, these instructions will apply uniformly to all reported changes.

12110 Intentional Failure to Comply With a Program Requirement SNAP MANUAL 10/01/03 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits will not be increased when benefits received under another means-tested Federal, State or local welfare or public assistance program, like Transitional Employment Assistance (TEA) or SSI, are reduced, suspended or terminated due to intentional failure to comply with a requirement of that program. EXAMPLE: A household’s SNAP benefits will not be increased if a member’s TEA cash assistance is reduced because he or she intentionally failed to comply with a TEA requirement. The prohibition against increasing SNAP benefits will last no longer than the duration of the penalty imposed by the TEA or SSI Program and will be applied concurrently with the TEA or SSI sanction. Should the TEA or SSI sanction end because the household has complied with the TEA or SSI Program requirement, the prohibition against increasing SNAP benefits will also end. The DCO county worker is not required to make any decisions about whether a failure or refusal to comply with an SSI Program requirement was intentional. The worker must simply verify if a known decrease in SSI benefits resulted from an intentional failure to comply with the requirements of that program. If an adverse action to an SSI benefit is not specifically identified as resulting from an “intentional” failure to comply, the reduced benefit amount will be shown in the SNAP budget so long as there has been a good faith effort to get information about the reason for the action. If an adverse change in an SSI check is due to a readily identifiable change such as, but not