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199 Shelter residents who are included in households already certified may apply for and, if otherwise eligible, participate as a separate household if the certified household listing them as members also contains the person who abused them.

Residents may receive an allotment as a separate household only once a month. The local county DSS office must take prompt action to ensure that the former household’s eligibility or allotment reflects the change in the household’s composition.

Shelter residents who apply as a separate household will be certified solely on the basis of their income and resources and the expenses for which they are responsible. They must be certified without regard to the income, resources and expenses of their former household.

Jointly held resources are considered inaccessible if the resources are jointly owned by shelter residents and by members of their former household and if the shelter resident's access to the value of the resources is dependent on the agreement of a joint owner who still resides in the former household.

1 4 . 6 H O M E L E S S S N A P H O U S E H O L D S Homeless individual is defined as: (A) an individual who lacks a fixed and regular nighttime residence including, but not limited to, an individual who will imminently lose their nighttime residence; or (B) an individual who has a primary nighttime residence that is: (1) A supervised publicly or privately operated shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations (such as a welfare hotel or congregate shelter); (2) A halfway house or similar institution that provides a temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized; (3) A temporary accommodation for not more than 90 days in the residence of another individual; or (4) A public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings (such as a hallway, a bus station, a lobby or similar places). Homeless SNAP households will be permitted to use their SNAP benefits to purchase prepared meals from homeless meal providers authorized by FNS (See exception in Section 2.3 (11) (E) Ineligible Household Members).

1 4 . 7 P R E R E L E A S E A P P L I C A N T S F O R S N A P A household which consists of a resident or residents of a public institution(s) which applies for SSI under SSA's Prerelease Program for the Institutionalized will be allowed to apply for SNAP benefits jointly with their application for SSI prior to their release from the institution.