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1194 (07/2026) Chapter 8: Examples • Chapter 8: Examples Example 4: Relative Foster care – Ester and Charlie are elderly and living with their 27-year-old daughter Kristie. Kristie provides licensed foster care for Charlie. Kristie purchases and prepares food for everyone in the household but wants to apply for SNAP benefits with Ester only. Kristie can choose to exclude Charlie and wife, Ester, or include both of them. Because Charlie is receiving foster care in a state-licensed Relative Adult Foster Home, they cannot participate in SNAP independently from the provider. However, they can be included in the daughter’s filing group if the daughter applies for them. Example 5: Foster care – Deborah is a foster care provider for Misty, 17, and Misty’s newborn baby, Jeremiah. Deborah applied for SNAP, including Misty and Jeremiah. Deborah may choose to include or exclude both Misty and Misty’s son Jeremiah from the filing group because Misty is Deborah’s foster care child. Reminder: foster care payments must be entered in ONE and will be included in financial calculations if requesting benefits for these individuals. Example 6: Live-in attendant – Due to Bud’s permanent disabling conditions, Jantz was hired as a live in attendant and provides housekeeping and personal services. Although Jantz purchases and prepares meals for Bud, SNAP benefits can be applied for separately. Jantz, the live-in attendant, may choose to be in a separate filing group, or they may apply together. Example 7: Domestic Violence – Ingrid has two children and all three were receiving SNAP with Ingrid’s husband, Elliot who is head of the household on the case. Ingrid and the two children fled their home to live with a friend, Linda. Ingrid applied for SNAP including the two children but did not include Linda. Ingrid cannot get a separate SNAP case until the month after removal on Elliot’s SNAP case because that would create a second SNAP issuance in the same month. If Ingrid had fled to a DV shelter or a safe home (as defined on 461-001-0000), then eligibility for SNAP could be approved, if otherwise eligible. Note: If Ingrid had been the head of household, she could have requested Elliot be removed from the SNAP case Example 8: Tyson and his wife Tammy, both age 30, are living with Tammy’’s 52-year-old mother Sherry. Tammy does all the grocery shopping, using Sherry’s money to pay for her mother’s own food. Tammy also does all the cooking, preparing separate meals each day for her mother. Forming the group: There are two filing groups in this household – The married couple, Tyson and Tammy are one; Sherry, the mother is separate. Even though the daughter does all the shopping and cooking, the food is purchased and prepared separately for the two groups.