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Volume 2 - Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) MS 5520 - R. 4/1/2021 – OMTL - 574 Special Considerations for Specific Households

The deductions of the following individuals are given special consideration:

A. Members disqualified for intentional program violation (IPV), fleeing felons, members disqualified for failure to comply with a work requirement (including Kentucky Works Program (KWP) sanctions), or members who refuse to work register. The entire household's allowable deductions, including the excluded member's deductions, are considered. Allow only one 20 percent earned income deduction from the household's gross countable income, which includes the gross earned income of the excluded individual. If the disqualified member is paying legally obligated child support to a non-household member, allow the entire child support deduction for the household.

B. Ineligible Immigrants, ineligible Able Bodied Adults Without Dependents (ABAWD), members excluded for failure or refusal to obtain or provide a Social Security Number (SSN), and members excluded for failure or refusal to sign the citizenship/immigration status declaration. (Providing an SSN is voluntary; however, failure to provide an SSN will result in the denial of food benefits to the individual failing to provide an SSN. Staff should advise applicants of this provision at initial certification and member add. Household members denied for this reason are considered excluded members.) Allow only one 20 percent earned income deduction from the gross countable income, which includes the adjusted earned income of the excluded individual.

For ineligible immigrants, that portion of the household's allowable shelter and dependent care expenses and legally obligated child support payments are divided evenly among the household members, including the excluded member. This includes utility expenses when an actual expense is used. All but the excluded member's share is a deductible expense for the remaining household members. The system will calculate the allowed expense for shelter expenses.

For Ineligible ABAWDS, allowable shelter, dependent care expenses, and legally obligated child support payments are only pro-rated if that individual is billed or responsible for paying.

C. Non-household members (Ineligible students). Only the portion of the expense actually contributed or paid by the household is an allowed deduction. The amount paid by the ineligible student is not an allowable expense.