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Title 7: SNAP Page 59 Iowa Department of Health and Human Services Employees’ Manual Chapter I: Specific Households and Participants Migrants and Season Farm Workers Revised February 13, 2026 Application Processing The following sections describe special policies for:  Application processing  Emergency services  Income  Budgeting for destitute households Application Processing Legal reference: 7 CFR 273.10(f)(3); 273.2(F)(1)(vi); and 273.10(e) For migrant households, you can waive the requirement that a household must prove it lives in Iowa if proof cannot reasonably be obtained. Document in the case file any efforts to verify residency. Migrants are entitled to postpone out-of-state verification only once each season. If a migrant household requesting emergency service has already had verification of out-of- state information postponed in the current season, grant a postponement of out-of-state verification only for the first month’s issuance. An “initial month” for migrant or seasonal farm worker households is the first month the household is certified following a break of at least one month in participation. This means that you do not prorate benefits from the date of the application when at least one household member got SNAP during the month before the month in which the household applies. Assign households the longest certification periods possible based on the predictability of the household’s circumstances. Certify households for at least four months. Emergency Services Legal reference: 7 CFR 273.10(e)(2) and (3), 273.2(i)(1) Migrants and seasonal farm workers are eligible for emergency service if the household meets any one of the standard emergency criteria as defined in 7-B, Determining Eligibility for Emergency Service. A migrant and seasonal farm worker household is also entitled to emergency services if the household is destitute and has $100 or less in liquid resources. A household is destitute if the household’s only income for the month of application is from one or both of the following sources:  Terminated income that was received before the date of application. • When the income is normally received monthly, “terminated” means the income will not be received from the same source during the balance of the month of application nor during the following month.