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1. Residents of boarding houses, or individuals (boarders) who live with others and pay the others a reasonable amount for meals.

2. Institutional residents who receive more than half of their meals each day from the institution as part of the institution's normal services. Including students who eat 50% or more of their meals by purchase of meal plans. This does not apply to residents of homeless shelters.

Neither residents of federally subsidized housing for the elderly built under Section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959 or Section 236 of the National Housing Act nor persons described in A(3),(4), or (5) above, are considered institutional residents.

3. Students who are required to meet special eligibility criteria but fail to do so.

4. Individuals who are detained in Federal, State, or local penal, correctional or other detention institutions for more than 30 days. Prison matches are completed after application and renewal and if a match occurs, the information must be followed up on, and appropriate action taken.

F. The household has the option to include or exclude foster care children or adults as household members.

G. Households are disqualified from receiving SNAP if a household member refuses or refused to cooperate with a Quality Control reviewer. The disqualification period continues until the member cooperates, but no later than 125 days after the end of the federal fiscal year the review was completed for. The disqualification period remains with the household member who refused to cooperate; therefore, if the household member moves into a new household, that household then becomes ineligible.

7210 TEMPORARY ABSENCES

There are times when household members are temporarily absent from the household but may still be considered in the household composition. This usually occurs if the individual is absent from the household for less than 30 days. There may be times that the 30-day period can be extended. If an individual is away from the household for longer than 30 days, but less than 60 days, then the situation should be discussed with a supervisor and, if needed, SNAP program staff should be consulted.

7300 SPECIAL HOUSEHOLDS

This section explains certification procedures for specific households. Some of the following examples differ from general certification procedures. These households are considered special because their income or other circumstances may be substantially different from typical SNAP households.

EXAMPLE: The federal fiscal year is Oct – Sept., the disqualification ends Feb 2nd each year.  February 2, 2024, for reviews completed for the benefit months 10/22 – 09/23