340:50-5-29 Homeless households

(a) A household is not required to have a fixed residence in order to receive food benefits. A homeless household may include one or more homeless persons. (b) Per 271.2 of Title 7 of the Code of Federal Regulations (7 C.F.R. § 271.2), homeless person means a person who lacks a fixed and regular nighttime residence or a person whose primary nighttime residence is a: (1) supervised shelter designed to provide temporary accommodations; (2) half-way house or similar institution providing temporary residence for persons intended to be institutionalized; (3) temporary accommodation in the residence of another person of not more than 90-calendar days from the application date. The worker applies the 90-calendar day time frame to each subsequent temporary accommodation in a different household and location; or (4) place not designed for, or ordinarily used, as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings, such as a hallway, bus station, lobby, car, or similar places. (c) Per 7 C.F.R. § 273.2(f)(4)(v) and Oklahoma Administrative Code 340:50-7-31, when a homeless household incurs or expects to incur a shelter cost during the month, the household is eligible for the standard homeless shelter deduction, per Oklahoma Department of Human Services Appendix C-3, Maximum Food Benefit Allotments and Standards for Income and Deductions, or the excess shelter deduction, whichever results in the most food benefits for the household. Homeless shelter costs may include a monthly vehicle payment when the household lives in the vehicle, payments to friends or neighbors for sleeping accommodations, camping fees, or hotel or motel charges.