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c. Gross Nonexempt Income
The BPS must verify gross nonexempt income for each household member before certification. The process of verifying income includes establishing the onset and termination of income.
d. Citizenship and Immigration Eligibility
The applicant must declare in writing the citizenship or immigration status of all household members. Immigrants must present documentation to determine if they are eligible immigrants as defined in Part VII.F. To establish eligibility for immigrants, applicants may need to establish:
1) the date of admission;
2) the date USCIS granted the status;
3) a military connection;
4) battered status;
5) presence in the U.S. on August 22, 1996;
6) the number of work quarters; or
7) tribal membership.
While awaiting acceptable documentation, the immigrant in question is ineligible, but the BPS must determine the eligibility of any remaining members, except in the instance when a member disputes the SSA report of countable work quarters to establish eligibility. The member may participate for six months during the SSA investigation. See Part VII.F.3.
The BPS must verify the validity of an immigrant's documents through the U.S Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). See Appendix 2 of Part VII for the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) Program verification system
The BPS must not verify the citizenship of household members unless the information provided by the household is questionable. See Part VII.F.4 for suggested forms of verification and the procedures to verify citizenship.
e. Shelter Expenses
Households must declare their shelter costs to receive a deduction for such expenses. Households must also declare their responsibility for heating or cooling expenses or their responsibility for telephone costs for entitlement to use the standard utility allowance or the telephone standard, respectively. The BPS must verify shelter expenses.
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