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MS 2000 [7]

Intake Worker: This job function includes more than one role and may be completed by one or more staff members, depending on the size of the local office and foot traffic. Roles of the intake worker include routing individuals who come into the local office to apply, recertify, or report changes. Intake workers assign tasks to the appropriate worker and provide support to individuals who walk into the office. The intake worker reviews the individual’s information to determine the appropriate next steps and assigns the individual to an Eligibility and Enrollment, Adult Medicaid, or Kentucky Works Program (KWP) worker. The support function for the intake worker includes:

A. Answering questions; B. Providing information about services or processes; C. Scanning documents, and D. Assigning individuals to support services.

Intentional Program Violation (IPV): Any of the following intentional actions by a household member:

A. Making a false or misleading statement; B. Misrepresenting, concealing, or withholding facts; or C. Committing any act that constitutes a violation of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, federal or state SNAP regulations, or any state statute relating to the use, presentation, transfer, acquisition, receipt, or possession of SNAP benefits.

Irregular Income: An amount that is not received consistently. The amount may be stable or varied, but receipt every pay period is uncertain. There may be some pay periods where no income is received.

Meal Delivery Service: A private nonprofit organization or a private establishment with which a State or local agency has contracted for the preparation and delivery of meals at concessional prices to elderly persons and their spouses, and to disabled persons and their spouses who are unable to adequately prepare all of their meals.

Means-Tested: An applicant's financial circumstances are considered in determining eligibility and/or benefit level. Examples of means-tested programs are KTAP, SSI, publicly funded housing, and educational payments that are counted as income. If the income is not countable for SNAP benefits purposes, the question of whether it is means-tested is not considered.

Migrants: A farm worker who travels away from home regularly, seeking employment in an agriculturally related activity. A migrant household is a household traveling for this purpose.

Over Issuance: The amount of SNAP benefits that exceeds the amount the household was eligible to receive.