Current through Register No. 40, October 3, 2024
(a)
Nutritional Supplement for Working Families (NSWF) shall be provided, as
funding and resources allow, to single parents residing with at least one
child, as defined by
RSA
161-B:2,II, who:
(1) Are employed for at least 35 hours per
week;
(2) Are receiving food stamp
benefits pursuant to
7 CFR
273.10; and
(3) Do not receive:
a. Any category of financial assistance
offered by the department;
b.
Extended food stamp benefits pursuant to
He-W
756.06; or
c. Food stamp benefits described in
7 CFR
273.10(e)(3).
(b) The child who
resides with the parent pursuant to (a) above, shall:
(1) Be under age 18; and
(2) Not have another biological or adopted
parent living in the home.
(c) The self employed food stamp recipient
shall be considered to have met the NSWF employment eligibility requirements in
(a)(1) above when:
(1) His or her net monthly
self-employment profit is divided by the federal minimum wage;
(2) The result of the calculation in (c)(1)
above is divided by 4.33 to obtain average hours worked per week; and
(3) The result of the calculation
in (c)(2) above shall meet or exceed the figure described in (a)(1)
above.
(d) NSWF shall:
(1) Begin the next payroll period in which
the criteria in He-W 696.02 are met, provided that the NSWF assistance group
(AG) meets the criteria on the date payment is made;
(2) Be issued pursuant to
He-W
671.01 and
He-W
670.04(a) and (c)-(e);
(3) Be calculated by dividing the total
amount of NSWF funding within the current fiscal year by the total number of
currently eligible NSWF households and rounding the resulting figure down to
the nearest dollar; and
(4) Be used
only to purchase food stamp-eligible items pursuant to
7 CFR
271.2.
(e) If the number of eligible NSWF households
has increased to such a number that it would cause the depletion of NSWF funds
before the end of the respective fiscal year, the standard monthly NSWF amount
calculated pursuant to (d)(3) above shall be reduced to an amount that prevents
the depletion of the NSWF funds before the end of that fiscal year.
(f) NSWF shall terminate:
(1) For the entire AG when any of the
eligibility requirements described in He-W 696.02 are not met;
(2) For the entire AG when a NSWF recipient
applies for any category of financial assistance pursuant to
He-W
601.01(p); or
(3) For all recipients when funding and
resources within the current state fiscal year are no longer available to offer
NSWF.
(g) If the NSWF
recipient requests an administrative appeal pursuant to
He-C 203.03 to
review the department's decision to terminate NSWF, the NSWF recipient:
(1) Shall not continue to receive NSWF during
the appeal process; and
(2) Shall
be denied an administrative appeal if the termination was due to reasons
described in (f)(3) above, pursuant to
He-C
203.03(g).
(h) The following provisions shall not apply
to AGs receiving NSWF:
(1) Receipt of
payments under the emergency assistance program described in
He-W
699.05(a)(2);
(2) Exemption from the child care waitlist
pursuant to
He-C
6910.10(c);
(3) The time limits on receipt of financial
assistance described in
He-W
602.05(a);
(4) Receipt of employment support services
pursuant to He-W 655;
(5) The title
IV-D requirements as defined in
He-W
601.08(e);
(6) Receipt of NSWF for retroactive periods
of time, as described in
He-W
601.07(h); or
(i) The department shall consider recipients
of NSWF to have met all the requirements of
He-W
637.03 by being employed for at least the minimum
hours per week described in (a)(1) above.
(j) NSWF shall not be provided:
(1) When an individual has applied for any
category of financial assistance; or
(2) While eligibility for any category of
financial assistance is being determined.
(k) NSWF shall be deducted from the food
stamp recipient's EBT account and will no longer be available for use, if the
benefit:
(1) Was issued by the department in
error;
(2) Was issued by the
department while the individual was ineligible for NSWF; or
(3) Is not used for a period of 90 days
pursuant to
He-W
671.01(d).
(See Revision Note at Chapter Heading He-W 600) #5171,
eff 6-26-91; ss by #6531, INTERIM, eff 6-27-97, EXPIRED: 10-25-97; ss by #6614,
eff 10-24-97, EXPIRED: 10-24-05
New. #10052, eff
12-20-11
