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BRIDGES ELIGIBILITY MANUAL STATE OF MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES

• The person cannot purchase and prepare meals due to a permanent disability as determined by Social Security Administration (SSA) or a non-disease-related permanent, severe disability. • The countable income of all the other people the senior impaired group lives with does not exceed 165 percent of the poverty level; see Reference Tables Manuals (RFT) 250. LIVING SITUATIONS The following policies describe living situations which create ineligi- bility for FAP or which must meet specific requirements to allow eli- gibility. Boarder A boarder is a person residing in either of the following: • In a commercial boarding house. • With the FAP group and paying reasonable monthly compensation for meals. A commercial boarding house is an establishment which provides room and board for compensation. It may or may not be licensed; it is not IRS tax exempt. Persons residing in a commercial boarding house are not eligible for FAP. Reasonable monthly compensation is: • The amount of the maximum monthly FAP benefits for the number of persons making the board payment if the payment is for at least three meals a day. • Two-thirds of the maximum monthly FAP benefits for the number of persons making the board payment if the payment is for less than three meals per day. Note: Spouses, parents and children, and children under parental control of a person acting as a parent living together are never boarders, regardless of any payments made to one another. The group providing the board in a noncommercial board situation may choose to include or exclude the boarder(s) from the group. If excluded, the boarder is not eligible for FAP.