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49 For households applying for both TANF and SNAP, SCDSS must follow the verification procedures described in Chapter 5, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Verification for those factors of eligibility which are needed solely for purposes of determining the household's eligibility for SNAP. For those factors of eligibility which are needed to determine both TANF eligibility and SNAP eligibility, SCDSS will use the TANF verification rules. However, if the household has provided SCDSS sufficient verification to meet the verification requirements of Chapter 5, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Verification, but has failed to provide sufficient verification to meet the TANF verification rules, SCDSS cannot use such failure as a basis for denying the household's SNAP application or failing to comply with SNAP processing requirements of Section 6.1 Normal Processing Standards. Under these circumstances, SCDSS must process the household's SNAP application and determine eligibility based on its compliance with the requirements of Chapter 5, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Verification. SCDSS will not require a household which files a joint TANF/SNAP application, and whose TANF application is denied, to file a new SNAP application. Rather, SCDSS must determine or continue their SNAP eligibility on the basis of the original application filed jointly for TANF and SNAP purposes. In addition, SCDSS must use any other documented information obtained subsequent to the application which may have been used in the TANF determination and which is relevant to SNAP eligibility or level of benefits.

4 . 6 A P P L I C A N T S U P P L E M E N T A L S E C U R I T Y I N C O M E ( S S I ) H O U S E H O L D S For purposes of this policy, SSI is defined as Federal SSI payments made under title XVI of the Social Security Act, federally administered optional supplementary payments under section 1616 of that Act, or federally administered mandatory supplementary payments made under section 212(a) of Pub. L. 93–66. Households applying simultaneously for SSI and SNAP benefits will be subject to SNAP eligibility criteria, and benefit levels will be based solely on SNAP eligibility criteria until the household is considered categorically eligible. Whenever a member of a household consisting only of SSI applicants or recipients transacts business at an SSA office, the SSA will inform the household of its right to apply for SNAP benefits at the SSA office without going to the appropriate SCDSS office and its right to apply at a SCDSS office if it chooses to do so. SSA will accept and complete SNAP applications received at the SSA Office from SSI households and forward them, within one working day after receipt of a signed application, to a designated