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Title 7: SNAP Page 50 Iowa Department of Health and Human Services Employees’ Manual Chapter I: Specific Households and Participants Fleeing Felons and Parole and… Revised February 13, 2026

2. The individual is aware of, or should reasonably have been able to expect that, the felony warrant has already or would have been issued; 3. The individual has taken some action to avoid being arrested or jailed; and 4. The federal, state, or law enforcement agency is actively seeking the individual. Actively seeking means a federal, state, or local law enforcement agency:  Informs the Department that it intends to enforce an outstanding felony warrant or to arrest an individual for a probation or parole violation within 20 days of submitting a request for information about the individual to the Department;  Presents a felony arrest warrant; or  States that it intends to enforce an outstanding felony warrant or to arrest an individual for a probation or parole violation within 30 days of the date of a request from the Department about a specific outstanding felony warrant or probation or parole violation. Refer to 7-A, Confidentiality for policies on sharing certain information with law enforcement officers who are investigating or pursuing a person who is fleeing custody for a felony crime or a parole or probation violation. In conjunction with requesting information, the law enforcement officer may provide warrant for the person’s arrest. When the Department has proof that a warrant for arrest has been issued for a SNAP recipient, the Department must contact the person to verify that the person has knowledge of the warrant. Homeless Households Legal reference: 7 CFR 271.2; 273.2(I)(1); 273.3; 273.1(e) A “homeless person” means a person who does not have a fixed and regular nighttime residence, or who will imminently lose their nighttime residence, or a person whose primary nighttime residence is one of the following:  A supervised shelter designed to provide temporary accommodations (such as a welfare hotel or congregate shelter).  A halfway house or similar institution that provides temporary residence for people intended to be institutionalized.  A temporary accommodation of not more than 90 days in the residence of another person, starting with the day the homeless person moved in with that person.  A place not designed for, or ordinarily used, as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings (a hallway, a bus station, a lobby, or similar places).