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FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICES CERTIFICATION FNS 425 EXPEDITED SERVICE PROCESSING

2 SecƟon 425 Change #1-2024 March 01, 2024 will have zero income in February ongoing. Using January income, the household is not eligible for expedited services in the month of application. The caseworker processes the application, and the household is eligible for $155 for January and $204 for February ongoing. The month of January is prorated to zero. Even though the household will not receive a payment for the month of January, it is considered as expedited services and the household is not eligible for expedited service for the month of February. D. A resident of a public institution who applies for benefits prior to being released and is entitled to expedited service shall have his application processed with the release date as the date of application. A public institution includes, but is not limited to, a hospital, mental institute, jail, prison, etc. E. If a household is not eligible for FNS benefits for the month of application but is eligible for FNS benefits and qualifies for expedited benefits for the following month, the agency shall do the following. 1. If the application is processed in North Carolina Families Accessing Services through Technology (NC FAST), authorize the case to allow access to benefits within seven days; do not hold the application until the 1st of the next month. 2. The NC FAST system will deny benefits for the month of application and issue benefits for the next month based on the information entered into the system. a. Benefits will be made available by NC FAST on the first working day of the second month or the day after processing, whichever is later for applications made between the 1st and 15th. b. Benefits will be made available on the day after processing applications made after the 15th of the month. The household will be issued only one month’s benefits with expedited service regardless of the date of application. EXAMPLE 1: A household applies for FNS benefits on January 8. The household is over gross income for the month of January; therefore, they are ineligible for FNS benefits in the month of application. The prescreening process determines that the household is entitled to expedited service for February. The application is taken and processed January 9, which is within seven days. NC FAST will make benefits available on February 1. If the application had been made on January 31 and processed February 1 the benefits would be available on February 2.