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182 (E) If a household contains a student whose income is excluded in accordance with Section 11.3 Earned Income (M), the student becomes 18 during the month of application, the Agency will exclude the student's earnings in the month of application and count the student's earnings in the following month. (3) Benefits Except as provided in Section 13.2 Determining Household Eligibility (1) Month of application, the household's monthly allotment will be equal to the maximum SNAP allotment for the household's size reduced by 30 percent of the household's net monthly income as calculated in Section 13.6 Calculating Net income and Benefit Levels (1) Net monthly income. If 30 percent of the household's net income ends in cents, the Agency will round the allotment down to the nearest lower dollar. If the calculation of benefits for an initial month would yield an allotment of less than $10 for the household, no benefits will be issued to the household for the initial month. Except during an initial month, all eligible one-person and two-person households will receive minimum monthly allotments equal to the minimum benefit of $24. For an eligible household with three or more members which is entitled to no benefits (except because of the proration requirements and the provision precluding issuances of less than $10 in an initial month), the Agency will deny the household's application on the grounds that its net income exceeds the level at which benefits are issued. For those eligible households which are entitled to no benefits in their initial month of application, but are entitled to benefits in subsequent months, the Agency will certify the households beginning with the month of application. When a household's circumstances change and it becomes entitled to a different income eligibility standard, the Agency will apply the different standard at the next recertification or whenever the Agency changes the household's eligibility, benefit level or certification period, whichever occurs first. (4) Thrifty Food Plan (TFP) and Maximum SNAP Allotments Maximum SNAP allotments will be based on the TFP as defined in Section §271.2 of the Code of Federal Regulations. The TFP amounts and maximum allotments are adjusted annually and will be prescribed in a table posted on the FNS web site, at www.fns.usda.gov/snap.