New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 10 - HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 87 - NEW JERSEY SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (NJ SNAP) MANUAL
Subchapter 2 - THE APPLICATION PROCESS
Section 10:87-2.4 - Residents of institutions and homeless individuals defined
Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 10:87-2.4
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024
(a) Individuals shall be considered residents of an institution when the institution provides them with the majority of their meals (over 50 percent of three meals daily) as part of the institution's normal services. Residents of institutions are not eligible for participation in the NJ SNAP program, with the following exceptions:
1. Residents of Federally
subsidized housing for the elderly, built under either Section 202 of the
Housing Act of 1959 or Section 236 of the National Housing Act;
2. Substance abusers who, for the purpose of
regular participation in a New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services
licensed or approved residential substance abuse treatment program, reside at a
facility or treatment center as described at
10:87-2.7(d);
i. Residents must be certified as one-person
households unless their children are living with them, in which case their
children shall be included in the household with the parent;
3. Blind and/or disabled
individuals who meet the definition at
10:87-2.34 and who reside in a
public or private nonprofit group living arrangement that serves no more than
16 residents (see
10:87-2.7(e)
);
4. Women or women with their
children temporarily residing in a shelter for battered women and children
shall be considered individual household units for the purpose of applying for
and participating in the program.
i. A
shelter for battered women and children shall be defined as a public or private
nonprofit residential facility that serves battered women and their children
and which may be authorized by FNS to accept and redeem NJ SNAP benefits. If
such a facility serves other individuals, a portion of the facility must be set
aside on a long term basis to serve only battered women and children.
ii. The CWA shall maintain a list of shelters
which meet the definition at (a)4i above and document the basis of this
determination. Shelters having FNS authorization to redeem NJ SNAP benefits
through wholesalers shall be deemed as meeting the above definition.
5. Residents of public or private
nonprofit shelters for homeless persons.
(b) Homeless individual means an individual who lacks a fixed and regular nighttime residence or whose primary nighttime residence is:
1. A supervised shelter designed
to provide temporary accommodations, such as a welfare hotel or congregate
shelter;
2. A halfway house or
similar institution that provides temporary residence for individuals intended
to be institutionalized;
3. A
temporary accommodation in the residence of another individual, provided that
such accommodation is not maintained for more than 90 days; or
4. A place not designed for, or ordinarily
used, as regular sleeping accommodation for human beings (a hallway, a bus
station, a lobby or similar places).
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