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boarder as a separate unit. Do not consider as a boarder any parent, child, spouse, or any child under 18 who is under the parental control of a unit member.

● A roomer who compensates a household for lodging, but does not receive meals, may participate as a separate unit.

● Foster children and adults (including siblings) under the foster care of a unit member may be excluded from the unit.

● Children receiving Relative Custody Assistance grants may be excluded from the unit.

● Each person, or person with children, living in a domestic violence shelter is an individual unit regardless of how food is purchased and meals are prepared.

● Residents of institutions as listed in the SNAP EXCEPTIONS in 0011.12 (Institutional Residence) are certified as 1-person units or grouped together according to relationship policies.

● A personal care live-in attendant who resides with a unit to provide medical, housekeeping, child care or similar personal services may be certified separately even if the attendant purchases and prepares food with the people for whom the attendant cares. The attendant cannot be a child or spouse of the people needing the care.

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COMBINED MANUAL

ISSUE DATE 12/2018

DETERMINING THE SNAP UNIT

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boarder as a separate unit. Do not consider as a boarder any parent, child, spouse, or any child under 18 who is under the parental control of a unit member.

● A roomer who compensates a household for lodging, but does not receive meals, may participate as a separate unit.

● Foster children and adults (including siblings) under the foster care of a unit member may be excluded from the unit.

● Children receiving Relative Custody Assistance grants may be excluded from the unit.

● Each person, or person with children, living in a domestic violence shelter is an individual unit regardless of how food is purchased and meals are prepared.

● Residents of institutions as listed in the SNAP EXCEPTIONS in 0011.12 (Institutional Residence) are certified as 1-person units or grouped together according to relationship policies.

● A personal care live-in attendant who resides with a unit to provide medical, housekeeping, child care or similar personal services may be certified separately even if the attendant purchases and prepares food with the people for whom the attendant cares. The attendant cannot be a child or spouse of the people needing the care.