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Title 7: SNAP Page 7 Iowa Department of Health and Human Services Employees’ Manual Chapter A: Administration Overview Revised June 20, 2025 Definitions “Minimum benefit” means the minimum monthly amount of benefits that one- and two-person households receive. The amount of the minimum benefit is equal to eight percent of the maximum monthly allotment for a one-person household. See 7-F, Exceptions to Benefit Level. “Nonliquid resources” means resources that cannot be easily converted into cash. Examples are personal property, licensed and unlicensed vehicles, buildings, land, and recreational property. “Nonprofit cooperative food purchasing venture” means any private nonprofit association of consumers whose members pool their resources to buy food. “Normal issuance cycle” is from the first of one calendar month to the first of the next calendar month for all eligible households. The required staggered issuance of SNAP does not alter this normal issuance cycle. “Overissuance” means the amount by which benefits issued to a household exceed the amount it was eligible to receive. “PAN” means the primary account number on the front of the EBT card. “Parent” means a person who is the legal parent, natural parent, or stepparent of a child, and includes persons having parental control over a child. “Parental control” means living with and fulfilling the role of a parent, financially or otherwise, for a child under age 18. A child is not under parental control if the child is married, because state law defines a married person as an adult. “PIN” means personal identification number. For EBT, the PIN is a four-digit number that the cardholder enters into a point-of-sale device using the device’s keypad to access the household’s SNAP account. “Primary cardholder” means the SNAP case name on the ABC system. “Program” means the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) conducted under the Food and Nutrition Act and regulations. “Project area” means the area designated by the state for program operations. In Iowa, the state as a whole has been designated as a single project area. “Prospective budgeting” means that the assistance computation is based on an estimate of the income, expenses, and other circumstances that will exist in the certification period.