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COMBINED MANUAL

ISSUE DATE 07/2019

STUDENTS

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person is enrolled, provided that the program has a component for enrollment in an institution of higher education and that program accepts the placement. See SNAP E&T Manual 5.21 (Post-Secondary Training and Education).

Persons who voluntarily participate in 1 of the employment and training programs and are placed in an institution of higher education through or in compliance with the requirements of the program, also qualify for the student exemption.

● Participating in an on-the-job training program in which the person is involved in productive labor, is paid by an employer while learning job skills, and the employer is reimbursed for the wages. If the participant is involved solely in classroom training for a month, that month does not count as on-the-job training.

● Participating in a state or federally financed work study program during the regular school year. To qualify under this provision, the student must be:

- Approved for work study at the time of application for SNAP.

- The work study must be approved for the school term.

AND

- The student must anticipate actually working during that time.

The exemption shall begin with the month in which the school term begins or the month work study is approved, whichever is later. The exemption shall continue until the end of the month in which the school term ends or it becomes known that the student has refused a work study assignment.

The exemption shall not continue between terms when there is a break of a full month or longer, unless the student is participating in work study during the break.

A student attending an institution of higher education is considered enrolled beginning on the 1st day of the school term. This status continues through normal periods of class attendance and winter and summer vacation breaks, unless the student graduates, is suspended or expelled, drops out, or does not intend to register for the next normal school term.

All other students are ineligible for SNAP. See SNAP E&T Manual 6.3.3 (Who Is Exempt From SNAP E&T).

MSA, GRH: Student status does not affect eligibility.

GA: Being a student does not make a person ineligible for GA. The following people are required to attend school to get or maintain eligibility:

● Displaced homemakers. See 0013.15.33 (GA Basis - Displaced Homemakers).

● High school students over age 18 whose primary language is not English. See 0013.15.48 (GA Basis - English Not Primary Language).