If the currently certified household contains the person who subjected them to abuse, the shelter resident may apply for and, if otherwise eligible, be certified as a separate household in the same month and/or in the same project area.

Consider persons temporarily residing in shelters for battered women and children as individual household units when applying for and participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Under no circumstances should you release any information on the whereabouts of the family members in the shelter to anyone remaining in the abuser’s household.

103.4 Income and Resources

Certify shelter residents who apply as a separate household solely on the basis of their income and resources and the expenses for which they are responsible.

103.4 Income and Resources (continued)

Do not consider the income, resources, and expenses of the former household.

Consider as shelter expenses any room payments made to the shelter.

Consider resources as inaccessible if they are:

Jointly owned by the shelter resident and any member of the former household if that household contains the person that subjected the resident to abuse, and

Access to the value of the resources is dependent upon the agreement if a joint owner who still resides in the former household