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Title 7: SNAP Page 20 Iowa Department of Health and Human Services Employees’ Manual Chapter C: Nonfinancial Eligibility Investigations Revised September 27, 2024 SNAP Trafficking When DIAL is finished with a trafficking investigation, a copy of the investigative report and evidence is uploaded into the Worker Information System Exchange (WISE). HHS does not take any other action unless DIAL has a founded trafficking IPV and a sanction needs to be imposed. Residency Legal reference: 7 CFR 273.3 Policy: Verify that a household is living in Iowa. EXCEPTIONS: People are exempt from the residency verification requirement if they are:  Homeless,  Migrant farm workers, or  New arrivals to Iowa. Procedure: Accept any document or collateral contact that reasonably proves the applicant’s residency. This could include documents used to verify other information, such as rent payments, mortgage payments, and utility expenses. Do not verify residence again unless it becomes questionable. Comment: The household does not need to be living in a fixed residence to be living in Iowa. For example, if a person lives in a car or at a campsite, the person still meets the residency requirements. The household does not need to plan on living in Iowa permanently, but a person who is just on vacation does not meet the residency requirement. Residents of Institutions Legal reference: 7 CFR 273.1(b), 273.11(e), (f), 271.2 Policy: People who live in institutions that furnish meals are not eligible for SNAP, with the following exceptions:  Residents of federally subsidized housing for the elderly built under either Section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959 or Section 236 of the National Housing Act.  People who are eligible as described under 7-A, Meal Providers That Accept SNAP. Comment: People are ineligible if they live in an institution that serves them over 50% of three meals a day as part of the institution’s normal services. Dormitory students are not eligible for SNAP when the institution serves them a majority of their meals. Dormitory students who purchase a plan that does not serve a majority of their meals or don’t purchase a meal plan can receive SNAP if otherwise eligible. People who are hospital patients for a full calendar month are not eligible for SNAP.