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Chapter 3: Household Income Rev. 8/2012 2 If the client request’s that the Office of Energy Assistance calculates their income, please refer Section E of this chapter. (1) SNAP Categorically Income Eligible a) Calculating Income You can determine if a case is active by looking at the HIST.F panel, the case must be or was active in the month the application was received. The reported income counted by the SNAP case in the month of LIEAP application will be multiplied by 3 to determine the benefit level. Counted means that the SNP field in either the JINC or UNEA panel has a Y or a C, each individual panel must be checked.

Examples: a) Household applied for energy assistance on October 2, 2009. All individuals that are receiving benefits on the SNAP case are also listed on the energy assistance application. SNAP case shows $600 Social Security, $300 Unemployment, and $200 Wages.

Income used for energy assistance case and entered on the worksheet income panel totals $3,300.

Social Security – 600 x 3 = 1,800 Unemployment – 300 x 3 = 900 Wages – 200 x 3 = 600

b) Household applied for energy assistance and has six current household members, but SNAP has two different active cases where three of the members are on one case, and three are on another case. Income panels from both cases must be used in calculating income. Narration must exist listing both SNAP cases that were used for categorically eligible.

Income used for energy assistance case and entered on the worksheet income panel totals $4,200.

CASE #1: This field will indicate if the income is counted or not. If there is a C or a Y that means it is counted for that program.