Additional Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Considerations

Disqualified household members are not included to establish the household size; however, the full amount of their income and assets count in determining the assistance amount for the other eligible household members.

Disqualified household members are:

Persons disqualified for an intentional program violation as described in policy 825-5 .This also applies to ineligible household members listed in section 251, who normally would have their income and deductions prorated.

Persons sanctioned for not complying with the SNAP work requirements. See policy 342 for SNAP work requirement policy. The work requirements are:

SNAP Employment and Training Program

Voluntary quit provisions

Reduction in hours provisions

Refusal to provide information to determine an individual's work requirement status.

Fleeing felons and probation or parole violators as described in policy 266 .

Head of Household from a household that had been sanctioned for transferring assets for the purpose of meeting SNAP eligibility as described in policy 535 .

Persons convicted by a federal, state or local court of any of the following after September 22, 1996:

Buying or selling SNAP benefits over $500

Trading SNAP for guns, ammunition, or explosives

Trading SNAP benefits for drugs

Persons convicted of fraudulently receiving duplicate SNAP benefits in any state after September 22, 1996.