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FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICES CERTIFICATION FNS 425 EXPEDITED SERVICE PROCESSING

11 SecƟon 425 Change #1-2024 March 01, 2024 C. Destitute households with one or more members who are migrant or seasonal farmworkers and liquid resources do not exceed $100 in total value. A migrant is an individual who travels away from home on a regular basis, usually with a group of laborers to seek employment in an agriculturally related activity. A seasonal farmworker is a person who is employed in agricultural employment of a seasonal or other temporary nature and is not required to be absent overnight from his permanent place of residence when: 1. Employed on a farm or ranch performing field work related to planting, cultivating, or 2. Employed in canning, packing, ginning, seed conditioning or related research, or processing operations, and transported, or caused to be transported, to or from the place of employment by means of a day-haul operation. NOTE: A household that contains at least one individual engaged in seasonal farm work during the certification period is considered a seasonal farmworker household regardless of the amount of income it may get from that source. All members do not have to be engaged in farm work. 3. Only migrant or seasonal farmworker households are classified as destitute. No other household may qualify as a destitute household. A migrant or seasonal farmworker household is destitute when: a. The household only income for the month of application is received prior to the date of application and is from a terminated source. i. The source is considered terminated if the income is received on a monthly or more frequent basis, and the income will not be received again from the same source during the month of application or the following month. ii. If the income is received less often than monthly, it will be considered terminated if receipt of the next scheduled payment cannot be anticipated. b. The household’s only income for the month of application is from a new source, and income of more than $25 from the new source will not be received by the tenth calendar day after the date of application. i. Income will be considered from a new source if the income is normally received on a monthly or more frequent basis, and income of more than $25 has not been received from that source within 30 days prior to the date of application.