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MS 2820

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Volume 2 - Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) MS 2820 – R. 6/30/26 – OMTL – 368 Destitute Households

[Migrant or seasonal farmworker households may have little or no income at the time of application and may need immediate food assistance, even though they may receive income at some other time during the month of application. Only migrant or seasonal farmworker households can be considered destitute. Therefore, these households are allowed the following exceptions to the normal expedited services criteria and processing.

A. Destitute Household Criteria

Migrant and seasonal farm worker households meeting the destitute criteria are entitled to expedited services at application, as well as special income calculation procedures.

When applying destitute criteria and calculating income for destitute households, consider a migrant or seasonal farmworker's employer to be the grower for whom the migrant is working and not the crew chief. Consider a migrant who travels with the same crew chief but moves from one grower to another, having moved from a terminated income source to a new income source.

Destitute Household Criteria are met if one of the following applies:

1. The only income for the month of application was received prior to the date of application and was from a terminated source. Income is from a terminated source if:

a. It is received on a monthly or more frequent basis, and it will not be received again from the same source during the balance of the month of application or during the following month. b. It is normally received less often than monthly, and no further payments will be received in the month in which the next payment would normally be received.

2. The only income for the month of application is from a new source, and no more than $25 is anticipated to be received by the 10th calendar day following the date of application. Income is from a new source if:

a. It is normally received on a monthly or more frequent basis, and no more than $25 was received from the source within 30 days prior to the date of application. b. It is normally received less often than monthly, and no more than $25 was received from the source within the last normal interval between payments.

3. The only income for the month of application is from a terminated source prior to the date of application and from a new source after the date of application, and income of more than $25 from the new source is not anticipated to be received by the 10th day after the date of application.