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NYS Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance- TA and SNAP Employment Policy Manual Section 385.3 - Page 29 Rev. 4/2025 granted based on a verbal assurance of prospective compliance, this should be noted in the case record. As long as the district has documentation to support the continued eligibility based on prospective compliance, the decision to authorize SNAP benefits should not be subject to a quality control error for this reason. However, districts should use discretion when determining whether or not to consider the documentation of prospective compliance as sufficient. For example, a district may determine that an individual’s statement regarding prospective compliance is not sufficient based on previous acts of noncompliance. This is a local district decision. Once an individual’s SNAP case is closed, they must file a new application to begin receiving SNAP again. This requirement applies to TA/SNAP recipients where the TA case remains open, but the SNAP case has been closed as well as NTA/SNAP recipients whose SNAP case has been closed. By law, a SNAP application must be accepted whenever it is submitted. The normal eligibility rules apply, and SNAP should be issued back to the date of application after the individual has reestablished eligibility through one of the previously mentioned methods and is otherwise eligible for SNAP. For applications screened as eligible for expedited processing, an ABAWD who indicates that they meet one of the following conditions, but does not have documentation at the time of application for SNAP benefits must have such documentation pended and receive SNAP benefits under the expedited processing timeframes, provided that the SNAP household is otherwise eligible for expedited SNAP benefits, and: • has or will re-establish eligibility by meeting the ABAWD requirement through one of the designated methods since being determined ineligible for SNAP benefits due to noncompliance with the ABAWD requirement; • has become exempt from the general SNAP work requirements or the ABAWD requirements; or • resides in an area with a federally approved ABAWD waiver. Districts should assist the household to obtain such documentation, if necessary, but cannot delay the issuance of expedited SNAP benefits if the pended documentation is not received before the end of the expedited processing period. In those instances, where documentation is pended, the district should include one of the following statements based on case circumstances on the SNAP approval notice with documentation pended (Q21 or Q22) that is provided to the household under expedited processing rules: • Documentation that an ABAWD has met/will meet the able-bodied adult without dependents (ABAWD) requirement within 30 consecutive days since receiving the ABAWD ineligible letter; • Documentation that an able-bodied adult without dependents (ABAWD) is currently exempt from the ABAWD requirement; or