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Title 7: SNAP Page 40 Iowa Department of Health and Human Services Employees’ Manual Chapter A: Administration Participants In Drug and Alcohol Treatment… Revised June 20, 2025 Approved Centers To be eligible while living here, the center must either:  Be an authorized retailer, or  Have a status as a nonprofit organization. If they do, they should have a current certificate from the IRS. Shelters for the homeless must be approved (licensed/certified) by an appropriate State or local agency or must be authorized by FNS as a retail food store. Such meal providers must be public or private nonprofit organizations as defined by the IRS and must serve meals that include food purchased by the provider. Processing Participant Applications Normal processing standards for eligibility decisions, acting on reported changes, and normal verification and documentation requirements apply to residents of these centers. For residents who meet emergency service criteria, you must ensure benefits are available no later than the seventh calendar day after the application date. In addition to the normal processing standards, residents of these centers have the additional considerations listed below:  Residents of treatment centers, if otherwise eligible and have no children residing in the center with them, must be certified for program participation as one-person households. If the child(ren) of the resident resides in the treatment center with them, the child(ren) must be certified as household member(s) in the resident’s household.  Residents of battered women and children’s shelters may apply on their own or use the shelter or other person as an authorized representative. These shelter residents may have left a household that includes the person who abused them. The former household may already be certified for benefits and its certification may be based on a household size that included the woman and children who left. An application from a shelter resident who received benefits as a member of their former household may be certified as a separate household. The allotment would be based on the new household size. You must take action to ensure those household members are removed from the former household’s benefits.