Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 67 - SOCIAL SERVICES
Part III - Economic Stability
Subpart 3 - Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
Chapter 19 - Certification of Eligible Households
Subchapter I - Income and Deductions
Section III-1977 - Cash Charitable Contributions

A. Effective immediately, cash charitable contributions based on need, which are received from private nonprofit charitable organizations, not in excess of $300 total per federal fiscal year quarter, shall be excluded as SNAP household income.

B. Affected households are entitled to the income exclusion beginning with the second federal fiscal year quarter of 1988 (January, 1988 through March, 1988) but not prior to February 1, 1988. Consequently a household which received $100 in January, 1988, another $100 in February and $250 in March from private nonprofit charitable organizations would be entitled to an income exclusion for the $100 received in February and $200 of the $250 received in March for a total income exclusion of $300 in that quarter.

C. Affected households which were denied benefits because the household's eligibility or benefit calculation during the second federal fiscal year quarter of 1988 (but not prior to February 1, 1988) did not include this income exclusion shall be entitled to restored benefits, if otherwise eligible, at the time of recertification, whenever the household requests a review of its case, or when the department otherwise becomes aware that a review of a particular case is needed. Restored benefits shall be paid to February 1, 1988, or the date of the SNAP application, whichever is later.