RESOURCE ELIGIBILITY STANDARDS

A. The local office shall consider households eligible under either expanded or basic categorical eligibility exempt from the resource eligibility criteria of this section. B. Households that do not meet expanded or basic categorical eligibility criteria shall have their nonexempt resources, as anticipated to be available in the issuance month, used to determine household eligibility. The resources of a sponsor and spouse considered toward a non-citizen household shall be the sponsor's total resources less two thousand dollars ($2,000). C. The value of liquid resources, as declared by the household, shall be utilized in the determination of expedited eligibility for all applicant households. D. As a result of the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008, adjustments to the SNAP resource limit will be subject to change annually according to the Consumer Price Index. There are currently two (2) resource limits: 1. One established for households that do contain a member who is aged sixty (60) and older and/or a person with a disability; and, 2. Another established for households that do not contain a member who is aged sixty (60) and older and/or a person with a disability. E. The resource limits are as follows: Effective October 1, 2024, the resource limit for households that include a member who is aged sixty (60) and older and/or a person with a disability is four thousand and five hundred dollars

($4,500). The resource limit for households that do not include a member who is aged sixty (60) and older and/or a person with a disability is three thousand dollars ($3,000).