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Maryland SNAP Manual: 109 Other Special Households
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Maryland SNAP Manual: 109 Other Special Households 1
Residents of treatment centers for drug addiction and alcoholism
Verify that the GLA is licensed by a health or mental health or social services agency of the State of Maryland for the care of 16 or fewer persons;
Receiving federally or state-administered SSI supplemental payments. There are still nine people in Maryland who receive the mandatory state supplement to SSI.
All residents in the GLA facility do not have to apply on the same basis. Accept applications for any individual applying as a one-person household or for any grouping of residents applying as a household as defined in Section 100 of this manual, i.e. consider all those residents who purchase and prepare together as a single household.
Use the GLA operator’s statement regarding the amount the resident is charged for shelter costs.
Often the GLA provides medical services. The GLA may bill the resident for some, but not all, of the services. The GLA facility operator must provide a written statement of the medical services it charges the resident.
The GLA may purchase and prepare food to be consumed by eligible residents on a group basis under the following conditions:
Eligible residents of a GLA who retain use of their own SNAP account may either use their allotment to purchase meals prepared especially for them at the facility or to purchase food to prepare meals for their own consumption.
When a resident moves from the facility, the GLA must comply as follows:
Responsible for any misrepresentation or fraud, which it knowingly commits while representing residents in the certification process.
The local office will take no other action against the treatment center other than to establish claims for any overissuances discovered during an investigation or hearing procedure. FIA will notify the local office of the FNS decision and of any subsequent action needed.
NOTE: Entitled in this definition refers to compensation or pension benefits received by the Veterans’ surviving spouses and children or benefits that have been approved but not yet received.
When possible, verification of disability for the surviving spouse or child will be made by observation. If not possible, require verification in the form of a written statement from a physician or licensed or certified psychologist.
Income for this provision includes the earned and unearned income of all other individuals with whom the elderly and disabled individual resides except for his or her spouse.
If the income of the other household members is less than the 165% standard for the family size of the others with whom the disabled person lives, shown on the chart, the elderly and disabled person and spouse can participate as a separate household, if otherwise eligible.
Request a statement from a physician verifying the inability to purchase and prepare meals if the disability is not obvious.
Each local office must maintain a list of certified treatment centers for worker reference.
Determine the eligibility of resident addicts and alcoholics as a one-person household or, where children are living with parents at a treatment center, the household will also include the children who are residing at the center with their parents.
The authorized representative shall complete the application process, receive and spend the SNAP benefits for food prepared by and/or served to the participating residents of the center.
Complete verification and documentation requirements when making an eligibility determination in which normal processing standards are applied.
Resident households are entitled to the same rights to notices of adverse action, to administrative hearings, and to lost benefits, as are all other SNAP households.
Consider the entire payment made by the resident to the treatment center as a shelter expense.
Each treatment and rehabilitation center will provide the local offices with a list of currently participating residents. The list shall include:
The household is not entitled to any portion of the allotment if he/she leaves on or after 16 days of receipt of the SNAP benefit and any portion of his/her allotment has been spent.
Once the household leaves the treatment center, the center is no longer allowed to act as that household’s authorized representative.
Responsible for any misrepresentation or fraud, which it knowingly commits while representing residents in the certification process.
The local office will take no other action against the treatment center other than to establish claims for any overissuances discovered during an investigation or hearing procedure. FIA will notify the local office of the FNS decision and of any subsequent action needed.
