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Eligibility Advisor (EA): An electronic system used to locate and verify an individual's current wages, job start or end, bank accounts and balances, and property holdings.

Eligible Food: Any of the following:

A. Food or a food product intended for human consumption, including bottled water. Alcoholic beverages, including "non-alcoholic" beer, tobacco, and hot food products prepared for immediate consumption, do not fall within this definition;

B. Seeds and plants to grow foods for the personal consumption of eligible households;

C. Meals prepared and delivered by an authorized meal delivery service to households eligible to use SNAP benefits to purchase delivered meals;

D. Meals served to households eligible to use benefits for communal dining, by an authorized communal dining facility for the elderly, SSI households, or both;

E. Meals prepared and served by a drug addiction or alcohol treatment and rehabilitation center to eligible households;

F. Meals prepared and served by a certified public or private non-profit group living arrangement facility to residents who are blind, aged, or disabled and meet the definition of "disabled";

G. Meals prepared by and served by a shelter for battered women and children to its eligible residents; and

H. Meals prepared and served by a public or private, nonprofit establishment that feeds homeless individuals, e.g., soup kitchen, shelter for the homeless, and which is approved by FNA and the appropriate state or local agency.

Eligibility and Enrollment: This job function completes in-person application/recertification interviews for assigned programs, including processing and disposing applications during the interview when all verification is provided and no additional actions are needed, such as a supervisor case review.

Entitlement: The amount of SNAP benefits the household would receive if one or more members disqualified for an Intentional Program Violation were included in the calculation of benefits.

Fleeing Felon: An individual convicted of Federal aggravated sexual abuse, murder, sexual exploitation and abuse of children, sexual assault, or similar State laws, and who is not in compliance with the terms of their sentence or parole.

Flexible Benefits: Under some pay/benefit plans, an employer awards the employee fringe benefits. This is usually an employer-paid benefit and, in most cases, is not monetary, such as a point system redeemable for merchandise. These are not considered countable income unless determined to be wages owed to the employee.

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MS 2000 [5]

Eligibility Advisor (EA): An electronic system used to locate and verify an individual's current wages, job start or end, bank accounts and balances, and property holdings.

Eligible Food: Any of the following:

B. Seeds and plants to grow foods for the personal consumption of eligible households;

C. Meals prepared and delivered by an authorized meal delivery service to households eligible to use SNAP benefits to purchase delivered meals;

D. Meals served to households eligible to use benefits for communal dining, by an authorized communal dining facility for the elderly, SSI households, or both;

E. Meals prepared and served by a drug addiction or alcohol treatment and rehabilitation center to eligible households;

F. Meals prepared and served by a certified public or private non-profit group living arrangement facility to residents who are blind, aged, or disabled and meet the definition of "disabled";

G. Meals prepared by and served by a shelter for battered women and children to its eligible residents; and

Entitlement: The amount of SNAP benefits the household would receive if one or more members disqualified for an Intentional Program Violation were included in the calculation of benefits.