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Page | 37 Thrifty Food Plan: The diet required to feed a family of four persons consisting of a man and a woman 20 through 50, a child 6 through 8, and a child 9 through 11 years of age, determined in accordance with FNS’ calculations. The cost of such diet will be the basis for uniform allotments for all households regardless of their actual composition. In order to develop maximum SNAP allotments, FNS makes household size and other adjustments in the Thrifty Food Plan taking into account economies of scale and other adjustments as required by law.

Trafficking: (1) The buying, selling, stealing, or otherwise effecting an exchange of SNAP benefits issued and accessed via Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards, card numbers and personal identification numbers (PINs), or by manual voucher and signature, for cash or consideration other than eligible food, either directly, indirectly, in complicity or collusion with others, or acting alone; (2) The exchange of firearms, ammunition, explosives, or controlled substances, as defined in section 802 of title 21, United States Code, for SNAP benefits; (3) Purchasing a product with SNAP benefits that has a container requiring a return deposit with the intent of obtaining cash by discarding the product and returning the container for the deposit amount, intentionally discarding the product, and intentionally returning the container for the deposit amount; (4) Purchasing a product with SNAP benefits with the intent of obtaining cash or consideration other than eligible food by reselling the product, and subsequently intentionally reselling the product purchased with SNAP benefits in exchange for cash or consideration other than eligible food; or (5) Intentionally purchasing products originally purchased with SNAP benefits in exchange for cash or consideration other than eligible food. (6) Attempting to buy, sell, steal, or otherwise affect an exchange of SNAP benefits issued and accessed via Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards, card numbers and personal identification numbers (PINs), or by manual voucher and signatures, for cash or consideration other than eligible food, either directly, indirectly, in complicity or collusion with others, or acting alone.

Under Issuance: The amount by which SNAP benefits issued to a household is less than the amount it was eligible to receive.

2100 SOURCE CODES

Source codes are used when completing the data entry on the mainframe (ACCESS). Source codes may be left blank if the case is a zero plus TANF only case, a medical only case, or a combination of a zero plus TANF and medical. If the case has an active SNAP or a parent TANF case, source codes are required. The following sections explain the type of source codes, and what month the code is entered in ACCESS as well as which panel the source code is allowed.

2110 MAIN SOURCES

Main source codes are only used in the budgeting process when it is a new application, renewal and six month report month. The following is an explanation of the main source codes. APPL 1. Information is entered for the benefit month the application is processed for. 2. Allowed on all panels with a reported source field.

RCRT 1. Information is entered for the benefit month the renewal is processed for.