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Page | 35 General Assistance (GA): Cash assistance to cover living expenses or other basic needs intended to promote the health or well-being of an individual. GA is usually paid by tribal entities to persons living on a Native American reservation in South Dakota.

Group Living Arrangement: A public or private nonprofit residential setting that serves no more than sixteen residents that is certified by the Department of Human Services Division of Developmental Disabilities. To be eligible for SNAP benefits, a resident of such a group living arrangement must be blind or disabled as defined in paragraphs (2) through (11) of the definition of “Elderly or disabled member” contained in this section.

Homeless Individual: An individual who is imminently homeless because they lack a fixed and regular nighttime residence or an individual whose primary nighttime residence is: (1) A supervised shelter designed to provide temporary accommodations (such as a congregate shelter); (2) A halfway house or similar institution that provides 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 place not designed for, or ordinarily used, as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings (a hallway, a bus station, a lobby or similar places).

Income and Eligibility Verification System (IEVS): The system of information acquisition and exchange for purposes of income and eligibility verification which meets the requirements of section 1137 of the Social Security Act.

Increased Benefit Budgeting Rule: Increases in benefits are to be budgeted during the interim months if the information is verified.

Interim Months: Interim months are the months between the application/renewal and the 6 month report or between the 6 month report and the renewal month.

Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS): The Immigration and Naturalization Service, U.S. Department of Justice.

ORFI: The Office of Recoveries and Fraud Investigations unit. State authorized unit within the Department of Social Services to investigate suspected fraud and also to collect the repayment of benefits that were received in error by household.

Over Issuance: The amount by which SNAP benefits issued to a household exceeds the amount it was eligible to receive.

Primary Source: A primary source is a source that reports a change that will be considered verified upon report and will be budgeted, regardless of whether the change results in an increase or decrease. (See list in Section 2120)

Probation or Parole Violator: The following criteria must be met to determine that an individual is a probation or parole violator: 1. An impartial party, as designated by the State, must determine that the individual violated a condition of his or her probation or parole imposed under Federal or State law; and 2. Federal, State, or local law enforcement authorities are actively seeking the individual to enforce the conditions of the probation or parole.