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Title 7: SNAP Table of Contents Chapter I: Specific Households and Participants Revised February 13, 2026 Page 1 Page Iowa Department of Health and Human Services Employees’ Manual Overview .................................................................................................................................... 1 Households with Alien Members ............................................................................................ 1 Definitions ........................................................................................................................... 2 Who Is an Eligible Alien ...................................................................................................... 4 Eligible Aliens ............................................................................................................. 5 Ineligible Aliens ........................................................................................................... 5 Alien Status Verification Requirements .............................................................................. 5 Requesting Acceptable Documentation of Eligible Alien Status ................................. 6 Types of Acceptable Documentation of Eligible Alien Status ..................................... 7 Alien Documentation Chart ......................................................................................... 8 The Five-Year Bar and Exemptions .......................................................................... 10 Using SAVE (Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements) ........................................... 24 Establishing Qualifying Quarters ...................................................................................... 25 Verifying Qualifying Quarters .................................................................................... 27 Sponsored Aliens ............................................................................................................. 27 Verifying Sponsor’s Information ................................................................................ 28 Aliens Sponsored Under Affidavit I-864 .................................................................... 29 Documentation of United States Citizenship by Birth ............................................... 32 Documentation of Acquired Citizenship .................................................................... 33 Reporting Undocumented Aliens .............................................................................. 33 Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents (ABAWDs) .......................................................... 34 ABAWD Exemptions ......................................................................................................... 34 Changes in ABAWD Status .............................................................................................. 37 ABAWD Work Requirement ............................................................................................. 38 ABAWD Status Notifications ............................................................................................. 39 Tracking ............................................................................................................................ 39 Definition of Work ..................................................................................................... 40 Good Cause for Not Meeting the Work Requirement ............................................... 40 Reporting and Verifying Hours .................................................................................. 41 Time Limit for ABAWDs .................................................................................................... 42 Countable Months in Another State .......................................................................... 43 Regaining Eligibility .......................................................................................................... 43 Additional Three-Months’ Eligibility ........................................................................... 45 Boarders and Commercial Boarding Houses ...................................................................... 46 Commercial Boarding Houses .......................................................................................... 46 Boarders ........................................................................................................................... 47 Income .............................................................................................................................. 47 Corporations ........................................................................................................................... 48 Income .............................................................................................................................. 48 Resources ........................................................................................................................ 48