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EAP Policy Manual FFY24 Chapter 2 Applications & Application Processing Page 19 Safe at Home Program The Safe at Home (SAH) program is offered by the Office of the Minnesota Secretary of State. Effective September 1, 2007, SAH helps survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, or others who fear for their safety by assigning a substitute address that must be accepted and used by all private and public entities in lieu of a program participant’s real address. The use of the substitute address (a P.O. Box) allows program participants to go about their lives, interacting with others without disclosing where they live so the person they fear cannot locate them. Their correspondence goes to their assigned P.O. Box address and is forwarded to their real physical address by the SAH office. By law, SAH participants cannot be required to disclose their physical address to any party other than the SAH office and a SAH program participant cannot be required to answer any questions about the circumstances of her or his participation in the program. The SAH office may be contacted at 1-866-723-3035 with questions or to confirm a SAH applicant’s participation in SAH. SAH is governed by Minn. Stat. § 5B, and Minn. Rules § 8290. How SAH Works SAH Participant Address Participants in SAH share a common P.O. Box but are assigned a unique Lot number. The P.O. Box and Lot number must be accepted by all private and public entities as the participant’s actual address of residence and employment. A SAH participant’s mail is sent to the P.O. Box and Lot #, which is managed by the Secretary of State. Participant mail is repackaged and mailed to the participant’s real residential address. Only First Class Mail sent through the U.S. Postal Service will be forwarded. Packages will not be forwarded unless they are recognizable pharmaceuticals or are clearly labeled that they are from a state or county government entity. The address provided by SAH participants is: Participant’s Name, Lot # XXXX, P.O. Box 17370, Saint Paul, MN 55117-0370 SAH participants cannot be required to disclose their real physical address. Service Providers must accept a SAH participant’s assigned PO Box address, without requiring the participant to also provide any address that could be used to physically locate them, including their actual home, work or school address, either as a substitute or in addition to their assigned SAH address, or as a condition of receiving a service or benefit, unless the service or benefit would be impossible to provide without knowledge of the SAH participant’s physical location (Minn. Stat., § 5B.05(a)).