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SNAP CERTIFICATION MANUAL – SECTION 12000 12200 Changes Reported by the Household 12227 Signature of Responsible Household Member

EXCEPTION 2: The County may determine that members have been claimed bygone Nothing household while actually living in another. Such members will be allowed to participate in the household where they actually live if otherwise eligible. An overpayment will be submitted against the household which misrepresented its circumstances (see SNAP 15400). EXCEPTION 3: When a county office does not timely process a reported decrease in household composition, eligible members may participate in their new household beginning in the month the change should have been effective. An overpayment will be submitted against the original household. The overpayment will be classified as an agency error (see SNAP 15400). 12227 Signature of Responsible Household Member SNAP MANUAL 10/01/03 The household’s current SNAP application (Request for Assistance, DCO-215) must contain the signature of a responsible household member. Should the member who signed the application leave the household, another responsible member must sign either the application or a statement attesting to the accuracy of the information on the application. Prior to signing, this member must review the information on the application and correct any invalid information. For ease of review, the corrections and new signature should be entered in a different color ink. Although the processing of the change need not be delayed solely to obtain the signature of a responsible household member, the household will be issued an request for contact as instructed in SNAP 12400. If a responsible household member does not come to the DHS county office to sign the application by the end of the ten-day period specified in the request for contact, an advance notice of adverse action will be issued. The advance notice of adverse action will state that the household’s case will be closed if a responsible household member does not come into the DHS county office to sign the Request for Assistance

12230 Resource Changes SNAP MANUAL 09/01/99

12231 Acquisition of a Vehicle If the household reports the acquisition of a vehicle, the information provided must be adequate to determine if the vehicle is to be excluded or counted as a resource. See SNAP 4430 for information about excluded vehicles.