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VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION

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2. The following individuals residing with the household will not count in determining the household's size for assigning a benefit level for the household or for comparing the household's monthly income with the income eligibility standards. Income and resources of these excluded members is countable to the remaining household members in accordance with Part XII.E. These persons may not participate in SNAP as separate households.

a. Ineligible Aliens: Individuals who do not meet the citizenship requirement or hold an eligible immigration status (Part VII.F).

b. SSN Disqualified: Individuals disqualified for failure to provide a Social Security Number (Part VII.G).

c. Fraud Disqualified: Individuals found guilty of committing an intentional program violation against the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program by a court of law or an Administrative Disqualification Hearing (ADH), or individuals who signed waivers to an ADH (Part XIX).

d. Individuals disqualified for noncompliance with employment program requirements (Part VIII.A).

e. Individuals who are fleeing prosecution of felony offenses or imprisonment for felony convictions, or individuals who are in violation of probation or parole conditions are ineligible. Individuals will be considered fleeing if: 1) There is an outstanding felony warrant for the individual by a federal, state, or local law enforcement agency, and the underlying cause for the warrant is for committing or attempting to commit a crime that is a felony under the law of the place from which the individual is fleeing or a high misdemeanor under the law of New Jersey; 2) The individual is aware of, or should reasonably have been able to expect that, the felony warrant has already or would have been issued; 3) The individual has taken action to avoid being arrested or jailed; and 4) The federal, state, or local law enforcement agency is actively seeking the individual by: i. informing a state agency that it intends to enforce an outstanding felony warrant or to arrest an individual for a probation or parole violation within 20 days of submitting a request for information about the individual to the state agency; ii. presenting a felony arrest warrant; or iii. stating that it intends to enforce an outstanding felony warrant or to arrest an individual for a probation or parole violation within 30 days of the date of a request from a state agency about a specific outstanding felony warrant or probation or parole violation.

f. Individuals who receive benefits for a three-month period and who subsequently fail to regain eligibility under the Work Requirement (Part XV).

g. Individuals convicted of murder or sexual assault on or after February 8, 2014 are

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