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COMBINED MANUAL

ISSUE DATE 12/2014

RESTAURANT MEALS

0023.18

MFIP, DWP, SNAP, GA, GRH: No provisions.

MSA: An allowance for restaurant meals may be paid to MSA clients who are not residents of a nursing home, regional treatment center, or group residential housing facility.

Add $68 to the monthly assistance standard for a client who was receiving a restaurant meal allowance on 6-1-90 and who eats at least 2 meals in a restaurant daily.

Once a client is off MSA for a calendar month, or loses the allowance because of not eating 2 or more meals a day in a restaurant, the allowance is never available again. See 0020.21 (MSA Assistance Standards).