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DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES FAMILY INVESTMENT ADMINISTRATION SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (SNAP) MANUAL HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION Section 100 Page 9

100.7 Special Eligibility Situations (continued) A. Strikers Households with a member subject to work registration who is on strike are not eligible for SNAP benefits unless they were eligible for benefits on the day prior to the strike (See Section 101). a. Households with a member subject to work registration who is on strike are not eligible for SNAP benefits unless they were eligible for benefits on the day prior to the strike (See Section 101). b. Persons who are exempt from work registration are not defined as strikers. Therefore, this policy does not apply to them. In addition, it does not apply to persons locked out from their jobs. B. Students Students must meet one of the eligibility requirements listed in Section 102 (Students). C. Residents of public or private non-profit homeless shelters a. If otherwise eligible, residents of homeless shelters may receive SNAP benefits, even though the shelter may provide meals. b. A homeless person is someone who lacks a fixed and regular nighttime residence or a person whose primary nighttime residence is a: i. Supervised shelter that provides temporary accommodations, such as a welfare hotel or congregate shelter; ii. Halfway house or similar residence that provides temporary accommodations for people in the process of leaving an institution; iii. Temporary accommodation in the residence of another person for no more than 90 days; or iv. Place not designed for, or ordinarily used as regular sleeping accommodations such as a hallway, a bus station, a lobby, a car, an abandoned building or any similar place.

REVIEWED MAY 2026