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.1 Eligible Food

A household member should sign each coupon book issued to the household. The coupons may be used only by the household or an authorized representative to purchase eligible food for the household. Uncanceled and unendorsed coupons of $1 denomination, returned as change by authorized retail food stores, may be presented as payment for eligible food. All other detached coupons may be accepted only if accompanied by the coupon book which bears the same serial number as the detached coupons. It is the right of the household or the authorized representative to detach the coupons from the book.

.2 Meals-on-Wheels

Food Stamp Program household members 60 years of age or over or Food Stamp Program household members who are housebound, physically handicapped, or otherwise disabled to the extent that they are unable to adequately prepare all their meals, and their spouses, may use coupons to purchase meals prepared for and delivered to them by a nonprofit meal delivery service authorized by FNS.

.3 Communal Dining

Food Stamp Program household members 60 years of age or over and their spouses are eligible to use coupons to purchase meals at communal dining facilities authorized by FNS for that purpose.

.4 Residents of Drug and Alcoholic Rehabilitation Centers, Group Living Arrangements, and Shelters for Battered Women and Children

.41 Members of eligible households who are narcotics addicts or alcoholics and who regularly participate in a drug or alcoholic treatment and rehabilitation program may use coupons to purchase food prepared for them during the course of such program by an institution authorized by FNS to redeem coupons at wholesalers, or which redeems coupons at retail food stores as the authorized representative.

.42 Eligible residents of a group living arrangement may use coupons to purchase meals prepared for them at the group living arrangement which is authorized by FNS to redeem coupons at wholesalers, or which redeems coupons at retail food stores as the authorized representative.

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.43 Eligible residents of shelters for battered women and children may use coupons to purchase meals prepared for them at a shelter authorized by FNS to redeem coupons at wholesalers, or which redeems coupons at retail food stores as the authorized representative.

.5 Homeless Food Stamp Households

Homeless food stamp households shall be allowed to use their food stamp benefits to purchase prepared meals from meal providers for the homeless.

.6 Use of ID Cards

Upon request, the household or the authorized representative shall present the household's ID card to the retail food store or meal service when exchanging food coupons for eligible food. When photo ID cards are in use, the person presenting the photo ID card need not be pictured on the card.

.7 Exchange of Coupons for Eligible Food

Coupons shall not be used to pay for any eligible food purchased prior to the time at which the coupons are presented to authorized retail food stores or meal services. Neither shall coupons be used to pay for any eligible food in advance of the receipt of food, except when prior payment is for food purchased from a nonprofit cooperative food purchasing venture.

.8 Cash Change

When change in an amount less than $1 is required in a coupon transaction, the household shall receive the change in cash not to exceed 99 cents.

However, in the case of homeless food stamp households, neither cash change nor credit slips shall be returned for coupons used for the purchase of prepared meals from authorized meal providers for the homeless. Such meal providers may use uncancelled and unmarked $1 coupons which were previously accepted for meals served to food stamp recipients when change is required for $5 and $10 coupons.

.9 Return of Coupons

A household may redeem properly issued coupons at any authorized retail store even if the household is not currently eligible to participate in the Food Stamp Program. In the event of voluntary termination of participation in the program by a household, coupons may be returned to the CWD. The CWD shall complete the appropriate sections of the FNS 35 in accordance with the Fiscal Management and Control Handbook Section 25-1050.

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