New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 10 - HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 87 - NEW JERSEY SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (NJ SNAP) MANUAL
Subchapter 3 - ELIGIBILITY FACTORS OTHER THAN NEED
Section 10:87-3.12 - Eligibility to use benefits for prepared meals
Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 10:87-3.12
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024
(a) The following individuals, if members of an eligible household, may use NJ SNAP benefits to purchase prepared meals from any communal dining facility, meal delivery service, substance abuse treatment center, group living arrangement, shelter for battered women and children or homeless meal provider which is currently authorized by FNS to accept NJ SNAP benefits.
1. Any member of an eligible household who is
60 years of age or older or members who receive SSI may use all or any part of
his or her NJ SNAP benefits to purchase meals prepared at a communal dining
facility authorized by FNS for that purpose. In addition, if such household
member lives with his or her spouse, the spouse may also use benefits to
purchase meals from a communal dining facility.
2. Any member of an eligible household who is
60 years of age or older, or members who are housebound, feeble, physically
handicapped or otherwise disabled to the extent that they are unable to
adequately prepare all their meals, may use all or any part of their benefits
to purchase meals from a nonprofit meal delivery service. The spouse of such an
individual may also use NJ SNAP benefits to purchase meals from a meal delivery
service, regardless of age or disability.
3. Members of eligible households who are
substance abusers and who regularly participate in a substance abuse treatment
and rehabilitation program may use their benefits to purchase food prepared for
them during the course of such program by a private nonprofit organization,
institution or a publicly operated community mental health center authorized by
FNS.
4. Members of eligible
households who are residents of a private or public nonprofit facility, such as
a GLA authorized by FNS to use their benefits to purchase food for meals served
either communally or individually.
i. If the
residents apply on their own behalf, the CWA shall certify these residents
using the same provisions that apply to all households. If the FNS disqualifies
the Group Living Arrangement (GLA) as an authorized retail food store, the CWA
shall suspend its authorized representative status for the same time; but
residents applying on their own behalf will still be able to participate in the
NJ SNAP program, if otherwise eligible.
5. Residents of shelters for battered women
and children may use their benefits to purchase meals prepared especially for
them at a shelter which has been authorized by FNS to redeem benefits at
wholesalers, or which redeems at retailers as the authorized representative of
participating households.
6.
Homeless NJ SNAP households who obtain meals prepared for and served by an
authorized public or private nonprofit establishment such as a soup kitchen or
temporary shelter approved by the DFD or its designee.
i. Homeless NJ SNAP households may use their
benefits at restaurants who have entered into a contract with the CWA to
provide meals to homeless individuals and who have been approved by FNS to
accept NJ SNAP benefits.
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