Appendix F: Index to DTA Food Stamps/ SNAP Regulations

Subject—Chapter and Section

Able-bodied Adults Without Dependents (ABAWD)—362.320
(see also Work Requirements)

Administrative Disqualification Hearing
(see Intentional Program Violations)

Affidavit of Support/Sponsor Deeming (see Non-citizens)

Alcohol/Drug Treatment Center Residents—365.600-690

• Authorized Representative—361.350, 365.610
• Certification Process for Residents—365.630
• Participants exempt from work requirements—362.310(B)(9), 362.320(B)(9)
• Special use of EBT benefits—360.120(C)

Aliens (see Non-citizens)

Alimony (as unearned income)—363.220(B)(3)

Americans with Disabilities ACT (ADA) —360.250

American Sign Language Services—360.510

Appeal (see Fair Hearings)

Application

• Authorized Representative—361.310
• Cooperation of household—361.400
• Date of eligibility and filing (Month of Application, Initial Applications)—364.100, 364.110
• Delays in processing—361.900-920, 361.960
• Interview requirement—361.500
• Mailing of application form to households—361.140
• Public Assistance (PA) households—361.160
• Same day filing rights, mail-in application—361.130
• SSI household right to file at SSA—361.110, 361.120, 361.190
• Timeliness for processing—361.700
• Withdrawal of application—361.150
• Wrong office filing, obligations of DTA—361.130

Assets—363.000-363.150

• Burial plot—363.140(B)
• Categorically eligible households—no asset tests—365.180(D)
• Expedited service – Asset test—365.810
• Inaccessible—363.140(E)
• Income producing—363.140(D)
• Jointly owned—363.120
• Liquid and non-liquid assets—361.610(E), 363.100, 363.130
• Noncountable—363.140
• Non-household member’s assets—363.140(F)
• Real estate—363.140(A)
• Sponsor deeming of (see Non-citizens)
• Transfer of—363.150
• Vehicles as noncountable—363.140(C), (D)
• Verification of—361.610(E), 363.130
• Assistance Unit (AU), definition of (see Household)—360.030(A)

Asylees—362.220(B)(2)

Attendants (Personal Care)

• As non-household members—361.230(B)
• Excess medical expense deduction—364.400(C)

Authorized Representative—361.300-370

Battered (Domestic Violence)

• Non-citizen—362.220(B)(8)
• Residents of shelters—361.240(B)(4), 365.550

Bay State Cap (Combined Application Project) for SSI households—366.910

Benefit Levels, how to determine—364.600, 364.980

• Mixed household (containing ineligible member or non-citizen)—364.600(C), 365.520

Boarders

• Eligibility of—361.240(D)
• Households with—365.200
• Ineligible boarders (Commercial boarding)—361.240(A)

Burial Plot (Noncountable asset)—363.140(B)

Business Expenses (see Income Expenses)

Capital Gains (as income)—365.930(B)

Caretakers, exemption from work—362.310(B)(7), 362.320(B)(3)

Cars (see Vehicles)

Case Record

• Contents of—360.300
• Disclosure of—360.400

Categorically Eligible Households—365.180

Certification Periods—364.700-710

Change Reporting—366.100-150

• Department responsibilities to act on—365.170
• Mass Changes to eligibility/benefits—366.130
• Monthly reporting (TAFDC cases)—366.110(D)
• No advance notice required—366.210
• PA household reporting—365.160-170, 366.140
• Semiannual reporting (USR)—366.110(C)
• Transitional Benefits Alternative (TBA)—366.110(B)
• Verification of reported changes—366.120(D)

Child Care Expenses (see Dependent Care)

Child/Spousal Support

• Deduction from income—364.400(E)
• Unearned income, treatment of—363.220(B)(3), 364.360
• Verification of—361.610(J)

Childless Adult (see ABAWD)

Citizenship (U.S.)—362.200-210

College Student (see Student)

Collateral Contact (as verification)—361.640(B)

Complaint Process—360.200-360.220

Confidentiality of Case Record—360.400

Criminal Record, Prosecutions—367.800(D), 367.850

Cuban/Haitian Entrants—362.220(B)(4)

Cyclical Month—360.030(H)

Deductions (from Income)

• Child support paid—364.400(E)
• Dependent care—364.400(D)
• Earned income—364.400(B)
• Homeless deduction—364.400(F)
• Medical expenses—364.400(C)
• Shelter—364.400(G)
• Standard deduction—364.400(A)
• Utilities, standard utility allowance (SUA)—364.400(G)(2)
• Verification of expenses—364.450
• Certification without—364.450(B)

Deeming Of Sponsor Income (see Non-Citizens)

Delays in Processing Benefits—361.900-960

• Beyond 60 days—361.960
• Notification of pending status—361.930

Delivery of Benefits—364.900

Dependent Care (Child care and adult care expenses)—364.400(D)

• As medical deduction for disabled household member—364.400(C)(12)
• Reimbursements as excluded income—363.230(F)

Dependent Child (for non-citizen eligibility)—362.240(D)

Disabled (Or Elderly) Household Members

• Affecting household concept—361.200(B)(4)
• Americans with Disabilities Act obligations—360.250
• Asset limit—363.110
• Definition of—361.210(A)
• Exempt from ABAWD requirements—362.320(B)
• Exempt from FS/ET work requirements—362.310(B)
• Medical deductions for—364.400(C)
• Net income of—364.500-550
• Net income test (165% FPL)—361.200(B)(4)(b), 364.975
• Shelter deduction (uncapped)—364.400(G)
• Separate household status—361.200(B)(4)
• Student, disabled—362.400
• Verification of disability—361.210(B), 366.320(C)(6)
• Waiver of in-office interview—361.510

Disabled Non-Citizen—362.220(B)(7)

Discrimination

• Americans with Disabilities Act Obligations—360.250
• Nondiscrimination policy —360.200
• Filing a complaint—360.200-250

Disqualified Household Members (Individuals)

• Action required on—365.520
• Definition of—361.230(D)
• Ineligible non-citizens—362.220(D)

Disqualified Households (Entire Household)

• For transfer of assets—363.150
• For failure to comply with work program—362.320(F)

Earned Income (see also Income)

• Deduction—364.400(B)
• Definition of—363.200-220
• Self-employment—363.200-220, 365.900-970
• Verification of Earned and Self-employment Income—363.210

EBT Card (Electronic Benefits)—364.910

• Uses of benefits—360.100, 120

Education Loans, Grants, or Scholarships

• As excluded income—363.230(D)
• As excluded assets—363.140(G)(5)
• Determining countable income—365.740

Elderly Household Members, special rules (see Disabled)

• Exempt from work requirements—362.310(B)(1), 362.320(B)(1)
• Elder housing residents—361.240(B)(1)

Emergency Food Stamps (see Expedited Service)

Employment & Training (ET) Requirements

• Participation—362.310
• Registration—362.310
• Treatment of Payments to FS/ET participants—363.230(M)

Exempt Income (see Income Exclusions)

Exemptions (see Work Requirements)

Expedited Service—365.800-850

• Certification period—365.850
• Benefit issuance—364.900(A)(1)
• Destitute migrant households—365.810(B)
• One hundred fifty dollar gross income households—365.810(A)
• Screening for expedited applications—361.180
• Verification requirements—365.830
• Zero-net-income households—365.810(C)

Expenses from Income (see Income Expenses)

Face-to-face interview (see Interviews)

Fair Hearings (Appeals)—343.010-730, 367.025-485

• Admin. disqualification hearings—367.520-825
• Continuation of benefits (and pending appeal)—367.275-300
• Department assistance—367.150
• Request for—367.125
• Time period for requesting—367.100

Farm Laborers

• Migrant—365.420
• Qualifying as destitute—365.810(B)
• Resident—365.410
• Seasonal employment income—364.320(C)
• Net income of—365.810(B)

Fire Disaster (see Destroyed in Natural Disaster)

Fleeing Felon—367.800(D)

Foster care (Children or Adults)

• Eligibility of, option to exclude—361.240(F)
• Payments as unearned income—361.240(F), 363.220(B)(2)
• As noncountable income—363.230(K)(5)

Fraud Claims (see Intentional Program Violations and Overpayments)

Fuel Assistance (LIHEAA)—363.230(K)(8)

• As excluded income—.363.230(K)(8)
• For higher heating/cooling Standard Utility Allowance—364.400(G)(2)
• Noncountable vendor payment—364.410(B)(2)

Good Cause

• Failure to provide SSN—362.500(C)
• Voluntary quit—362.340(C)
• Work registration—362.320(C), 362.330

Gross Income Tables—364.950, 976

Group Home Residents

• Authorized representative—365.620(A)
• Center responsibilities—365.640
• Drug and alcohol treatment centers—365.600, 365.610
• Eligibility—361.240(B)(3), 365.605
• Shelters (battered women)—365.550
• Use of EBT benefits for prepared meals—360.120(D)
• Verification of eligibility—365.620

Head Of Household—361.220

Homeless

• Definition of—360.030(D)
• Exception to institutionalized ineligibility rule—361.240(B)
• Homeless shelter deduction ($143)—364.400(F)
• Purchase of prepared meals—360.120
• Standard Utility Allowance and shelter deduction (for certain homeless households)r—361.610(C)

Household Concept—361.200-240

• Categorically eligible household—365.180
• Disqualified household members—361.230(D)
• Disqualified non-household members—365.520
• Elder and disabled household members—361.200(B)(4), 361.210
• Head of household—361.220
• Ineligible households—361.240
• Mixed households (non-citizen)—364.600(C), 365.520
• Non-household members—361.230
• Parental control rule—361.200(A)(2), (3)
• Separate household status—361.200(B)
• Spousal rule—361.200(A)(1)
• With boarders—365.200

Identity, verification of—361.610(G)

Income—363.200

• Allowable Deductions (see Deductions)
• Anticipated—364.310-330
• Averaging expenses—364.440
• Averaging income—364.340, 365.960
• Child support income —364.360, 363.230(O)
• Countable—363.220
• Deemed (see Non-Citizens)
• Determining income—364.300, 364.340
• Earned—363.220(A)
• Educational grants —364.340(A)(2)
• Excluded/Noncountable (see Income Exclusions)—363.230
• Garnishments—363.220(C)
• Gross income standard —364.370, 364.950, 364.976
• Mixed households income (see Non-Citizens)
• Net income standards—364.500, 364.970
• Recouped monies—363.220(C)(4)
• Seasonal employment—364.320(C)
• Self-employment, averaging income from—364.320(B), 365.960
• Sponsor deeming—363.220(B)(7), 362.270
• Unearned—363.220(B)
• Verification of—363.210
• Withheld wages—364.340(D)

Income Exclusions/ Noncountable Income

• Children/students’ earnings—363.230(H)
• Educational loans, grants, and scholarships—363.230(D)
• Excluded by law—363.230(K)
• From non-household members—363.230(L)
• Infrequent—363.230(C)
• In-kind—363.230(A)
• Loans—363.230(E)
• Monies for third parties—363.230(G)
• Non-recurring lump sum payments—363.230(I)
• Recouped monies—363.220(C)(4)
• Reimbursements—363.230(F)
• Self-employment income, cost of producing—363.230(J)
• Vendor payments—363.230(B)

Income Expenses

• Anticipating—364.420
• Averaging—364.440
• Determining—364.410
• Exceeding income—363.210(F)
• Verification of (At initial certification)—364.450

Income-Producing Property (as a noncountable asset)—363.140(D)

Indigence Exception to Sponsor Deeming—362.270(D)(b)

Ineligible Households (versus Disqualified Households)—361.240

In-Kind Income—363.230(A)

Institutions, Residents of—361.240(B)

Intentional Program Violations

• Admin. disqualification hearings—367.520-825
• Definition of—367.525
• Penalties for—367.800

Interest Payments—363.220(B)(4)

Interpreter Services—360.510

Interviews—361.500-530

• Missed interviews—366.320(B)
• Pure SSI Households—361.190
• Scheduling of—366.320(B), 366.330(A)
• Waiver of face-to-face—361.510-530

Ira Accounts—363.130(D)

Jointly Owned Assets—363.120

Keogh Plans—363.130(D)

Legal Permanent Resident—362.220(B)(7)

Life Insurance Policies (noncountable asset)—363.140(B)

Limited English Proficiency (Interpreters)—360.510

Live-In Attendants—361.230(B), 364.400(C)(12)

Loans (Educational)

• As excluded income—363.230(D), (E)
• As noncountable asset—363.140(G)(5)
• In determining student income—365.740

Lost Benefits (see Underpayments)

Low Income Heating Energy Assistance (see Fuel Assistance)

Lump Sum Payments (Non-recurring)

• As a countable asset—363.130(E)
• As excluded income—363.230(I)

Meals on Wheels (use of benefits for)—360.120(B)

Means-Tested Program (for non-citizen eligibility purposes)—360.030(G)

Medical Expenses, as income deduction—364.400(C)

• Averaging of—364.440
• Dependent care as medical expense—364.400(D)
• Non-deductible expenses—364.410(B)(3)
• Over-the-counter drugs, supplies, etc—364.400(C)(3)
• Payments to attendants—364.400(C)(12)
• Reimbursed medical expenses—364.410(B)(3)
• Transportation related expenses—364.400(C)(11)
• Verification of—361.610(D), 364.420, 364.450(A), 366.320(C) (3)

Migrant Farmworkers (see Farm Laborers)

Natural Disaster—366.600

• Definition of—360.030(E)
• Eligibility—366-600-620
• Gross income amount (Chart for disaster program)—364.946

Net Income Standard—364.970

• Standards for Elderly disabled—364.975

Non-Citizens ("Aliens")—362.220

• Amerasians—362.220(B)(5)
• American Indian Born in Canada or Mexico—362.230
• Asylees—362.220(B)(2)
• Battered (Domestic violence)—362.220(B)(8)
• Calculation of benefits/mixed households—364.600(C)
• Conditional entrant—362.220(B)(10)
• Cuban/Haitian entrants—362.220(B)(4)
• Definitions—362.220, 362.240
• Failure to provide SSN (good cause)—362.500(C)
• Failure to verify status/disqualified—362.220
• Lawfully residing (PRUCOLs)—362.240
• Legal permanent residents—362.220(B)(7)
• Members of Hmong and Highland Laotian tribes—362.235
• Non-immigrant (students, visitors)—362.220(E)
• Parolees—362.220(B)(9)
• Refugees—362.220(B)(1)
• Sponsor deeming—362.270
• Trafficking victims—362.220(B)(6)
• Unlawfully residing in U.S—362.220(G), 362.240 (B)
• Undetermined status.—362.220(F)
• Verification of—362.220(C)
• Veterans—362.240(F)
• Withholding of deportation—362.220(B)(3)

Non-citizen-sponsor deeming of income & assets

• Affidavit of support—362.270(A)(3)
• Battering exception to sponsor deeming—362.270(D)(2)(a)
• Exemptions from sponsor deeming—362.270(D)
• Failure to verify sponsor information—362.270(H)
• Indigence exception to sponsor deeming—362.270(D)(2)(b)
• Means-tested program (definition)—362.240(D)
• Verification of sponsor income/assets—362.270(C)
• Work history quarters (for eligibility/exception to deeming)—362.220(B)(7)(f)(g)

Noncountable Income (see Income Exclusions)

Non-Discrimination (see also ADA)—360.220, 360.250

Non-Household Members

• Assets of—365.500-520
• Definition of—361.230
• Disqualified—361.230(D)
• Income of—365.500-520
• Legal non-citizens, calculation of mixed household benefits—364.600(C)

Non-Public Assistance (NPA) Household—361.170

Notices

• Adverse action—364.860, 366.200
• Approval notice—364.810
• Change notice—364.850
• Denial notice—361.700(B), 361.950
• Exceptions to advance notice requirements—366.215
• Increase benefits notice—364.830
• Pending status notice—361.930, 364.820
• Restoration of lost benefits—364.895
• Requirements of proper notice—364.800-895
• Termination notice—364.840

Offsetting Claims—366.550

Overpayment—367.490

• Admin. disqualification hearings—367.520-825
• Collecting overpayments—367.510
• Intentional violations—367.500-550
• Liability of household, Authorized Rep cases—361.310(B)
• Notices—364.870-880
• Recoupment of FS overpayment—367.495(E)
• Unintentional violations—367.495

Parolees (Non-citizens)—362.220(B)(9)

Pension

• As income—363.220(B)(2)
• Funds, as noncountable assets—363.140(B)

Principal Wage Earner (Head of Household) —361.220

Privacy (Confidentiality)—360.300-400

Property (see Assets)

Proration Of Benefits—364.650

• Tables—364.990

Public Assistance Households

• Categorical eligibility—365.180
• Certification periods—365.140
• Handling applications—361.160
• Change to NPA (termination of PA benefits)—365.170(B)-(C)
• Definition of—365.110
• Joint application for—365.120
• Mass changes in PA benefits—366.130(B)
• Reported changes—365.160-170
• Work requirement of—365.130

Purchase & Prepare Rule—361.200

Quality Control, Cooperation with—360.600, 361.400

Questionable Information—361.620

Quit (see Voluntary Quit)

Real Estate, as noncountable asset—363.140(A)

Reasonable Accommodation (see ADA)

Recertification—364.120, 366.300

• Department responsibilities—366.330
• Failure to—366.340
• Household reporting responsibilities—366.110
• Household responsibilities—366.320
• Notification—366.310
• Verification requirements—366.320(C)

Recouped Monies, countable and noncountable—363.220(C)(4), 363.220(C)(6)(b)

Recoupment of FS Overpayment—367.495(E)

Reduction Or Termination Of Benefits (Notice of adverse action)—366.200

• Aid pending appeal—366.220
• Exception to ten-day advance notice—366.215
• No advance notice—366.210

Refugees—362.220(B)(1)

Reimbursements—363.230(F)

• Request for reimbursement for benefits provided to sponsored non-citizens—362.270(I)

Rental Property

• Cost of doing business—365.940
• Income from—365.910-960, 363.220(A)(2), 363.220(B)(5)
• Non-countable asset (income producing, security deposit)—363.140(D), (E)

Reporting Changes (see Changes)

Residency—362.100

• Verification of—361.610(H), 362.120

Resources (see Assets)

Restoring Lost Benefits (see Underpayments)

Roomers

• As non-household members—361.230(A)
• Households with income from—365.910-960

Same-Day Application Filing—361.130

Sanction (Failure to comply with another assistance program requirements)—363.220(C)(5)

Scholarships (as excluded income)—363.230(D)

School Employees—365.430

Self-Employment

• As income exclusion (Costs of producing self-employment income)—363.230(J)
• Assigning certification periods—365.960
• Averaging income—365.960-970
• Definition of income/expenses—363.220(A)(2)
• Determining eligibility and benefits—365.970
• Roomer, boarder, rental, business income—365.200, 365.910-960
• Work registration of—365.920

Semiannual Reporting (USR)—366.110(C)

Shelter Deduction—364.400(G)

Shelters, Residents of

• Battered/DV—361.240(B)(4), 365.550(A), 365.550(B)-(E)
• Homeless—360.010(D), 361.240(B)(5)
• Special use of EBT benefits—360.120(E)

Social Security (RSDI) Benefits (as unearned income)—363.220(B)(2)

Social Security Numbers (SSN)—362.500

• Application for—362.500(A)(2)
• Failure to provide—361.230(D), 362.500(C), 365.520(A)
• Good cause—362.500(C)
• Uses of —362.500(D)
• Verification of (oral or in writing)—361.610(F), 362.500(B)

Special Situation Households—365.030

Sponsor Deeming (Non-Citizens) —362.270

SSI Recipients

• Bay State CAP—366.910
• FS Application, date of—361.120
• FS Applications filed at DTA—366.920(B)
• FS Applications filed at SSA offices—361.190 366.920
• Group living arrangements—361.240(B)(3)
• SSI PASS funds, treatment of—363.230(N)

Standard Utility Allowance (SUA)—364.400(G)(2), 364.945

Stolen Benefits—364.900(D)

Strikers, eligibility of—361.240(E)

Students

• Assets of—365.730
• College students as non-household members—361.230(C)
• Earning of student under age 18—363.230(H)
• Eligibility conditions—362.400-420, 365.700-740
• Exempt from work requirements—362.310(B)(8), 362.320(B)(8)
• Income of—362.410-420, 365.740

Substance Abuse, Residents of treatment programs—365.600

• Fleeing felon eligibility—367.800(D)

Supplemental EBT Benefits—364.900(B), 366.120(A)

Tables

• Gross income standards—364.950
• Maximum monthly benefit tables—364.980
• Net income standards (incl. elder/disabled)—364.970
• 165% income standards (elder/disabled)—364.975
• Standard utility allowances (SUA)—364.945

Time-Limited Benefits (for ABAWDS failure to comply)—362.320(F)

Timeliness Standards

• For applications (Prompt action)—361.080, 361.700
• For expedited issuances—365.820
• For reported changes—366.150

Training Allowances (as income)—363.230(F)(2)

Transfer of Assets—363.150

Transitional Benefits Alternative (TBA)—365.190

• Change reporting requirements—366.110(B)

Transportation Expenses (medical deduction)—364.400(C)(11)

Treatment Centers (see Alcohol/Drug)

Trust Funds

• As inaccessible assets—363.140(E)
• As income—363.220(B)(6)

Underpayments (Restoration of lost benefits)—366.500-590

• Notice of lost benefits—364.895

Unearned Income—363.220(B)

• Alimony & child support—363.220(B)(3)
• Deemed sponsor income—363.220(B)(7)
• Foster care payments—361.240(F), 363.220(B)(2)
• Grants, interest payments—363.220(B)(4)
• Rental income—363.220(B)(5)
• Trust funds—363.220(B)(6)
• Workers Comp., Unemployment, Veterans, Social Security—363.220(B)(2)

Unemployment Compensation

• Exempt from work requirements—362.310(B)(6), 362.320(B)(7)
• Treatment as unearned income—363.220(B)(2)

Unfit For Employment (see Disability)

Unintentional Program Violations—367.495

Vehicles (noncountable assets)—363.140(C)

Vendor Payments

• As countable income—363.220(C)(3)
• As excluded income—363.230(B)

Verifications—361.600-660

• Alternate verifications—361.610(G)-(H), 361.640(A)
• Citizenship—362.210
• Collateral contact by DTA—361.640(B)
• Expedited issuance requirements—365.830
• Household's responsibility for—361.650
• Income verification—363.210
• Incomplete verification (Household fault)—361.960(C)
• Non-citizen status—362.220(C)
• Of household changes—366.120(D)
• Pending status (missing verification)—361.930
• Questionable information—361.620-630
• Recertification—366.320(C)
• Residency—361.610(H), 362.120
• Worker assistance—361.650

Veterans

• As disabled household members—361.210
• As eligible non-citizens—362.220, 362.240(F)
• Noncountable veterans benefits—363.230(K)(12), (14)
• VA benefits, as unearned income—363.220(B)(2)

Voluntary Quit from Prior Work—362.340

• Good cause—362.340(C)
• Verification of—362.340(F)

Voter Registration, obligations of DTA—360.950

Waiver of Face-To-Face Interview—361.510-530

Withdrawal of Application—361.150

Work History for Non-citizens

(see Non-Citizens Sponsor Deeming)

Work Requirements (for 18-50 childless adults—ABAWDS)—362.300, 362.320-330

• Community service requirement—362.320(E)
• Exemptions from—362.320(B)
• Failure to comply with—362.320(F)
• Good cause (lack of community service)—362.320(C)

Work Requirements (for 16- to 60-year-old household members—FS/ET)—362.300, 310

• Exemptions from—362.310(B)
• Good cause—362.330
• Work registration/job search—362.310(C)-(D)

Workers Compensation (as unearned income)—363.220(B)(2)