New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 8 - SOCIAL SERVICES
Chapter 139 - FOOD STAMP PROGRAM
Part 100 - GENERAL PROVISIONS FOR THE FOOD STAMP PROGRAM
Section 8.139.100.7 - DEFINITIONS
Universal Citation: 8 NM Admin Code 8.139.100.7
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
A. Definitions beginning with "A":
(1)
Adequate notice: means a
written notice sent by mail or electronically that includes a statement of the
action HCA has taken or intends to take, reason for the action, household right
to a fair hearing, name of the individual to contact for additional
information, the availability of continued benefits liability of the household
for any over-issuances received if hearing decision is adverse to the
household. An adequate notice may be received prior to an action to reduce
benefits, or at the time reduced benefits will be received, or if benefits are
terminated, at the time benefits would have been received if they had not been
terminated. In all cases, participants have 13 days from the mailing or
electronic distribution date of the notice to request that benefits be restored
to their previous level pending the outcome of an administrative
hearing.
(2)
Adjusted net
income: means the household's gross monthly income less the standard
deduction, earned income deduction, dependent care deduction and the shelter
deduction. (Medical expenses are allowed for certain eligible members as a
deduction from their gross income.)
(3)
Application: means a
request, on the appropriate ISD form, submitted in a written or electronic
format with the signature of the applicant or on the applicant's behalf by an
authorized representative, for assistance.
(4)
Attendant: means an
individual needed in the home for medical, housekeeping, or child care
reasons.
(5)
Authorized
representative: means an individual designated by a household or
responsible member to act on its behalf in applying for SNAP benefits,
obtaining SNAP benefits, or using SNAP benefits to purchase food for the
household. This can include a public or private, nonprofit organization or
institution providing assistance, such as a treatment or rehabilitation center
or shelter which acts on behalf of the resident applicant.
B. Definitions beginning with "B":
(1)
Benefit month:
means the month for which SNAP benefits have been issued. This term is
synonymous with issuance month defined below.
(2)
Beginning month: means the
first month for which a household is certified after a lapse in certification
of at least one calendar month. Beginning month and initial month are used
interchangeably. A household is budgeted prospectively in a beginning
month.
(3)
Boarder:
means an individual to whom a household furnishes lodging and meals for
reasonable compensation. Such a person is not considered a member of the
household for determining the SNAP benefit amount.
(4)
Boarding house: means a
commercial establishment, which offers meals and lodging for compensation with
the intention of making a profit. The number of boarders residing in a boarding
house is not used to establish if a boarding house is a commercial
enterprise.
(5)
Budget
month: means the calendar month for which income and other circumstances
of the household are determined in order to calculate the SNAP benefit amount.
During the beginning month of application, prospective budgeting shall be used
and therefore, the budget month and the issuance month are the same.
C. Definitions beginning with "C":
(1)
Capital
gains: means proceeds from the sale of capital goods or
equipment.
(2)
Categorical
eligibility (CE): means a SNAP household that meets one of the following
conditions:
(a)
Financial CE: Any
SNAP household in which all members receive Title IV-A assistance (TANF),
general assistance (GA), or supplemental security income (SSI) benefits is
considered to be categorically eligible for SNAP benefits.
(b)
Broad-based CE: Any SNAP
household, in good standing, in which at least one member is receiving a
non-cash TANF/MOE funded benefit or service and household income is below one
hundred sixty-five percent FPG.
(3)
Cash assistance (CA)
households: (also referred to as financial assistance) means households
composed entirely of persons who receive CA payments. Cash assistance (CA)
means any of the following programs authorized by the Social Security Act of
1935, as amended: old age assistance; temporary assistance to needy families
(TANF); aid to the blind; aid to the permanently and totally disabled; and aid
to the aged, blind or disabled. It also means general assistance (GA), cash
payments financed by state or local funds made to adults with no children who
have been determined disabled, or to children who live with an adult who is not
related. CA households composed entirely of TANF, GA or SSI recipients are
categorically eligible for SNAP.
(4)
Certification: means the
authorization of eligibility of a household and issuance of SNAP
benefits.
(5)
Certification
period: means the period assigned for which a household is eligible to
receive SNAP benefits. The certification period shall conform to calendar
months and includes the requirement for the completion of an interim report
form in accordance with Subsection B of
8.139.120.9 NMAC.
(6)
Collateral contact: means an
individual or agency designated by the household to provide information
concerning eligibility.
(7)
Communal diner: means an individual 60 years of age or older who
is not a resident of an institution or a boarding house, who is living alone or
with a spouse, and elects to use SNAP benefits to purchase meals prepared for
the elderly at a communal dining facility which has been authorized by USDA/FNS
to accept SNAP benefits.
(8)
Communal dining facility: means a public or nonprofit private
establishment, approved by FNS, which prepares and serves meals for elderly
persons, or for SSI recipients, and their spouses; a public or private
nonprofit establishment (eating or otherwise) that feeds elderly persons or SSI
recipients and their spouses, and federally subsidized housing for the elderly
at which meals are prepared for and served to the residents. It also includes
private establishments that contract with an appropriate state or local agency
to offer meals at concession prices to elderly persons or SSI recipients and
their spouses. Such establishments include a facility such as a senior
citizen's center, an apartment building occupied primarily by elderly persons,
or any public or private nonprofit school (tax exempt) which prepares and
serves meals for elderly persons.
(9)
Conversion factor: means the
calculation used to convert income that is received on a weekly or biweekly
basis to an anticipated monthly amount.
D. Definitions beginning with "D":
(1)
Date of
application: means the date an application is received by the income
support division offices during regular business hours. Applications that are
dropped off or submitted electronically after regular business hours will be
considered received as of the next business day.
(2)
Date of admission: means the
date established by the United States citizenship and immigration services as
the date a non-citizen (or sponsored non-citizen) was admitted for permanent
residence.
(3)
Date of
entry: means the date established by the United States citizenship and
immigration services as the date a non-citizen (or sponsored non-citizen) was
admitted for permanent residence.
(4)
Disability: means the
inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of a
medically determinable physical or mental impairment.
(5)
Disabled member: see elderly
or disabled member.
(6)
Documentation: means a written statement entered in the paper or
electronic case record regarding the type of verification used and a summary of
the information obtained to determine eligibility.
(7)
Drug addiction or alcoholic
treatment and rehabilitation program: means any drug addiction treatment
or alcoholic treatment and rehabilitation program conducted by a private,
nonprofit organization or institution, or a publicly operated community mental
health center under part B of title XIX of the Public Health Service Act ( 42
U.S.C. 3004 et seq.)
E. Definitions beginning with "E":
(1)
Elderly or disabled member:
(a)
Elderly: means an individual
60 years or older.
(b)
Disabled: means a person who meets any of the following standards:
(i) receives supplemental security income
(SSI) under title XVI of the Social Security Act or disability or blindness
payments under titles I, II, X, XIV, or XVI of the Social Security
Act;
(ii) receives federally or
state administered supplemental benefits under Section 1616a of the Social
Security Act, provided that the eligibility to receive the benefits is based
upon the disability or blindness criteria used under title XVI of the Social
Security Act;
(iii) receives
federally or state administered supplemental benefits under Section 211(a) of
Pub. L. 93-66, supplemental security income benefits for essential
persons;
(iv) receives disability
retirement benefits from a government agency (e.g. civil service, ERA, and
PERA) because of a disability considered permanent under Section 221(i) of the
Social Security Act;
(v) is a
veteran with a service-connected or non-service connected disability rated by
the veterans administration (VA) as total or paid as total by the VA under
title 38 of the United States Code;
(vi) is a veteran considered by the VA to be
in need of regular aid and attendance or permanently home bound under title 38
of the United States code;
(vii) is
a surviving spouse of a veteran and considered by the VA to be in need of
regular aid and attendance or permanently home bound or a surviving child of a
veteran and considered by the VA to be permanently incapable of self-support
under title 38 of the United States code;
(viii) is a surviving spouse or surviving
child of a veteran and considered by the VA to be entitled to compensation for
service-connected death or pension benefits for a non-service-connected death
under title 38 of the United States code and has a disability considered
permanent under Section 221(i) of the Social Security Act ("entitled" as used
in this definition refers to those veterans' surviving spouses and surviving
children who are receiving the compensation or pension benefits stated, or have
been approved for such payments, but are not yet receiving them); or
(ix) receives an annuity payment under
Section 2(a)(1)(iv) of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 and is determined to
be eligible to receive medicare by the railroad retirement board, or Section
2(a)(i)(v) of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 and is determined to be
disabled based upon the criteria used under title XVI of the Social Security
Act;
(x) is a recipient of interim
assistance benefits pending the receipt of supplemental security income, a
recipient of disability related medical assistance under title XIX of the
Social Security Act, or a recipient of disability-based state general
assistance benefits provided that the eligibility to receive any of these
benefits is based upon disability or blindness criteria established by the
state agency which are at least as stringent as those used under title XVI of
the Social Security Act (as set forth at 20 CFR part 416, subpart I,
Determining Disability and Blindness as defined in Title XVI).
(2)
Eligible
foods: means:
(a) any food or food
product intended for human consumption except alcoholic beverages, tobacco, and
hot foods and hot-food products prepared for immediate consumption;
(b) seeds and plants to grow foods for the
personal consumption of eligible households;
(c) meals prepared and delivered by an
authorized meal delivery service to households eligible to use SNAP benefits to
purchase delivered meals, or meals served by an authorized communal dining
facility for the elderly, for SSI households, or both, to households eligible
to use SNAP benefits for communal dining;
(d) meals prepared and served by a drug
addict or alcoholic treatment and rehabilitation center to eligible
households;
(e) meals prepared and
served by a group living arrangement facility to residents who are blind or
disabled as found in the definition of "elderly or disabled member" contained
in this section;
(f) meals prepared
and served by a shelter for battered women and children to its eligible
residents; and
(g) in the case of
homeless SNAP households, meals prepared and served by an authorized public or
private nonprofit establishment (e.g. soup kitchen, temporary shelter) approved
by HCA that feeds homeless persons.
(3)
Encumbrance: means debt owed
on property.
(4)
Equity
value: means the fair market value of property, less any encumbrances
owed on the property.
(5)
Excluded household members: means individuals residing within a
household who are excluded when determining household size, the SNAP benefit
amount or the appropriate maximum food stamp allotment (MFSA). These include
ineligible non-citizens, individuals disqualified for failure to provide an SSN
or to comply with the work requirements, and those disqualified for intentional
program violation. The resources and income (counted in whole or in part) of
these individuals shall be considered available to the remaining household
members.
(6)
Expedited
services: means the process by which households reporting little or no
income or resources shall be provided an opportunity to participate in the FSP,
no later than the seventh calendar day following the date the application was
filed.
(7)
Expungement: means the permanent deletion of SNAP benefits from an
EBT account that is stale.
F. Definitions beginning with "F":
(1)
Fair hearing: an
administrative procedure during which a claimant or the claimant's
representative may present a grievance to show why they believe an action or
proposed action by HCA is incorrect or inaccurate.
(2)
Fair market value (FMV):
means the amount an item can be expected to sell for on the open
market.
(3)
FNS: means
the food and nutrition service of the United States department of agriculture
(USDA).
(4)
Food Stamp
Act: the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, and subsequent
amendments.
(5)
Fraud:
intentionally making a misrepresentation of, or failing to disclose, a material
fact: with the knowledge that such a fact is material (necessary to determine
initial/ongoing eligibility or benefit entitlement); and with the knowledge
that the information is false; and with the intent that the information be
acted upon (deceive/cheat); with reasonable reliance on the person who hears
the information to accept it as the truth.
(6)
Full time employment: means
working 30 hours or more per week, or earning income equivalent to the federal
minimum wage multiplied by 30 hours.
G. Definitions beginning with "G":
(1)
General assistance (GA)
households: means a household in which all members receive cash
assistance financed by state or local funds.
(2)
Gross income: means the
total amount of income that a household is entitled to receive before any
voluntary or involuntary deductions are made, such as, but not limited to,
federal and state taxes, FICA, garnishments, insurance premiums (including
medicare), and monies due and owing the household, but diverted by the
provider. Gross income does not include specific income exclusions, such as,
but not limited to, the cost of producing self-employment income, and income
excluded by federal law.
(3)
Group living arrangements: means a residential setting that serves
no more than sixteen residents that is certified by DOH under regulations
issued under Section 1616(e) of the Social Security Act, or under standards
determined by the secretary to be comparable to standards implemented by
appropriate state agencies under Section 1616(e) of the Social Security Act. To
be eligible for SNAP benefits, a resident shall be living in a public or
private non-profit group living arrangement and must be blind or disabled as
defined in the definition of "elderly or disabled member" set forth at Items
(i) through (x) of Subparagraph (b) of Paragraph (25) of Subsection A of
8.139.100.7 NMAC.
(4)
Guaranteed basic income:
Guaranteed basic income provides an individual or household a one time or
recuring cash payment or transfer funded from a public or private source
intended to support the basic needs of individuals or households by reducing
poverty, promoting economic mobility, or increasing the financial
stability.
H. Definitions beginning with "H":
(1)
Head of household: the
household is the basic assistance unit for the SNAP program. The household has
the right to select the head of household in accordance with CFR 273.1
(d).
(2)
Homeless
individual: means an individual who lacks a fixed and regular nighttime
residence, or an individual whose primary nighttime residence is:
(a) a supervised shelter providing temporary
accommodations (such as a welfare hotel or congregate shelter);
(b) a halfway house or similar institution
providing temporary residence for individuals intended to be
institutionalized;
(c) a temporary
accommodation for no more than 90 days in the residence of another individual,
beginning on the date the individual moves into the temporary residence;
or
(d) a place not designed for, or
ordinarily used, as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings (e.g. a
hallway, a bus station, a lobby or similar places).
(3)
Homeless meal provider:
means a public or private nonprofit establishment, (e.g., soup kitchen,
temporary shelter), approved by an appropriate state agency, that feeds
homeless persons.
I. Definitions beginning with "I":
(1)
Immigrant: means a lawfully
admitted non-citizen who entered the U.S. with the expressed intention of
establishing permanent residence as defined in the federal act.
(2)
Ineligible non-citizen:
means an individual who does not meet the eligible non-citizen requirements or
who is not admitted for permanent residence.
(3)
Income: means all monies
received by the household from any source, excluding only the items specified
by law or regulation. Income is also defined as any monetary gain or benefit to
the household.
(4)
Income and
eligibility verification system: means a system of information
acquisition and exchange for purposes of income and eligibility verification
which meets the requirements of Section 1137 of the Social Security Act,
referred to as IEVS.
(5)
Initial month: means the first month for which a first-time
household is certified for participation in SNAP. An initial month is also a
month in which a household is certified following a break in participation of
one calendar month or longer. For migrant or seasonal farm worker households,
an initial month shall only be considered if there has been an interruption in
certification of at least one calendar month.
(6)
Inquiry: means a request for
information about eligibility requirements for a cash, medical, or food
assistance program that is not an application (although the inquiry may be
followed by an application).
(7)
Institution of higher education: means certain college-level
institutions, such as vocational schools, trade schools, and career colleges
that award academic degrees or professional certifications.
(8)
Institution of post-secondary
education: means any public or private educational institution that
normally requires a high school diploma or equivalency certificate for
enrollment, or that admits persons who are beyond the age of compulsory school
attendance in the state in which the institution is located regardless of the
high school prerequisite, provided that the institution is legally authorized
or recognized by the state to provide an educational program beyond secondary
education in the state or provides a program of training to prepare students
for gainful employment.
(9)
Irrevocable trust: means an arrangement to have monies held by one
person for the benefit of another that cannot be revoked.
(10)
Issuance month: means the
calendar month for which SNAP is issued. In prospective budgeting, the budget
and issuance months are the same. In retrospective budgeting, the issuance
month follows the budget month.
J. Definitions beginning with "J": [RESERVED]
K. Definitions beginning with "K": [RESERVED]
L. Definitions beginning with "L": Low-income household means a household whose annual income does not exceed one hundred and twenty-five percent of the office of management and budget poverty guideline.
M. Definitions beginning with "M":
(1)
Maintenance of effort (MOE):
means the amount of general funds the state agency must expend annually on the
four purposes of temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) to meet a
minimum expenditure requirement based on a state's historical assistance to
families with dependent children (AFDC) expenditures.
(2)
Maximum food stamp allotment
(MFSA): means the cost of the diet required to feed a family of four
persons consisting of a man and a woman 20 through 50, a child six through
eight, and a child nine through 11 years of age. The cost of such a diet shall
be the basis for uniform SNAP benefit amounts for all households, regardless of
their actual composition. In order to develop maximum SNAP benefit amounts, the
USDA makes adjustments for household size taking into account the economies of
scale and other adjustments as required by law. The MFSA is used to determine
if a boarder is paying reasonable compensation for services. The maximum SNAP
allotment (MFSA) was previously named the thrifty food plan (TFP).
(3)
Meal delivery service: means
a political subdivision, a private nonprofit organization, or a private
establishment with which a state or local agency has contracted for the
preparation and delivery of meals at concession prices to elderly persons, and
their spouses, and to the physically or mentally handicapped, and to persons
otherwise disabled, and their spouses, such that they are unable to adequately
prepare all of their meals.
(4)
Medicaid: medical assistance under title XIX of the Social
Security Act, as amended.
(5)
Migrant/migrant household: means an individual who travels away
from home on a regular basis with a group of laborers to seek employment in an
agriculturally related activity. A migrant household is a group that travels
for this purpose.
(6)
Mixed
households: means those households in which some but not all of the
members receive cash assistance benefits.
N. Definitions beginning with "N":
(1)
Net monthly
income: means gross nonexempt income minus the allowable deductions. It
is the income figure used to determine eligibility and SNAP benefit
amount.
(2)
Non-cash
assistance (NCA) households: means any household, which does not meet
the definition of a cash assistance household, including households composed of
both cash assistance and NCA members (mixed household). Same applies to
non-financial households (NFA).
(3)
Non-cash TANF/MOE benefit or service: means non-cash TANF/MOE
benefit or services include programs or services that do not provide cash to
recipients, but are funded by the TANF program, either by the federal TANF
block grant or the state MOE share. These services may include transportation,
childcare, counseling programs, parenting programs, pamphlets or referrals to
other TANF/MOE-funded services.
(4)
Non-financial assistance (NFA) households: means any household,
which does not meet the definition of a financial assistance household,
including households composed of both cash assistance and NFA members (mixed
household). NFA has the same meaning as non-cash households (NCA).
(5)
Non household members: means
persons residing with a household who are specifically excluded by regulation
from being included in the household certification, and whose income and
resources are excluded. No household members include roomers, boarders,
attendants, and ineligible students. Included in this classification are
institutionalized household members such as children attending school away from
home and members who are hospitalized or in a nursing home.
(6)
Notice: means written
correspondence that is generated by any method including handwritten, typed or
electronic, delivered to the client or an authorized representative by hand,
U.S. mail, professional delivery or by any electronic means. The term "written
notice" and "notice" are used interchangeably.
(7)
Notice of adverse action
(NOAA): means a notice informing the household that an action is being
taken by the HCA that adversely affects eligibility or the amount of benefits a
household receives, including withholding, suspending, reducing or terminating
benefits. The NOAA shall be issued to the household before taking the adverse
action. Benefits will not be reduced until 13 days from the date on the adverse
action. If the 13th day falls on a weekend or holiday, the next working day is
counted as the last day of the 13-day adverse action period.
O. Definitions beginning with "O": Over-issuance means the amount by which SNAP benefits issued to a household exceed the amount the household was eligible to receive.
P. Definitions beginning with "P":
(1)
Period of
intended use: means the month in which the benefits are issued if issued
before the 20th of the month. For benefits issued after the 20th of the month,
the period of intended use is the rest of the month and the following
month.
(2)
Principal wage
earner: means the household member with the greatest amount of earned
income in the two months preceding a determination that a program rule has been
violated. This applies only if the employment involves 20 hours or more a week
or pays wages equivalent to the federal minimum wage multiplied by 20 hours. In
making this evaluation, the entire household membership shall be considered,
even those who are excluded or disqualified but whose income must be counted
for eligibility and benefit amount determination. For purposes of determining
noncompliance with the SNAP work requirements, including employment and
training components, voluntary quit, and work-fare, the head of household is
the principal wage earner unless the household has selected an adult parent of
children (of any age) or an adult with parental control over children (under
age 18) as the designated head of household as agreed upon by all adult members
of the household. A person of any age shall not be considered the principal
wage earner if the person is living with a parent or person fulfilling the role
of parent or the parent or parent-substitute is:
(a) registered for employment;
(b) exempt because of Title IV
compliance;
(c) in receipt of UCB
or is registered as part of the UCB process; or
(d) employed or self-employed a minimum of 30
hours a week or receiving income at the federal minimum hourly rate multiplied
by 30 hours.
(3)
Prospective budgeting: means the computation of a household's
eligibility and benefit amount based on a reasonable estimate of income and
circumstances that will exist in the current month and future months.
Q. Definitions beginning with "Q": Quality control (QC) means the federal mandate, as part of the performance reporting system whereby each state agency is required to review a sample of active cases for eligibility and benefit issuance, and to review a sample of negative cases for correct application of policy. The objectives are to determine a state's compliance with the Food Stamp Act and CFR regulations, and to establish the basis for a state's error rate, corrective action to avoid future errors, and liability for errors in excess of national standards, or eligibility for enhanced federal funding if the error rate is below national standards.
R. Definitions beginning with "R":
(1)
Real
property: means land, buildings, and whatever is built on or affixed to
the land.
(2)
Recipient: means a person receiving SNAP benefits. Recipient is
the same as participant.
(3)
Refugee: means a lawfully admitted individual granted conditional
entry into the U.S.
(4)
Reasonable compensation: means a boarder payment amount that
equals or exceeds the MFSA for the number of boarders.
(5)
Retail food store: means:
(a) an establishment or recognized authority
of an establishment, or a house-to-house trade route, whose eligible food sales
volume, as determined by visual inspection, sales records, purchase records, or
other inventory or accounting record keeping methods that are customary or
reasonable in the retail food industry, is more than fifty percent staple food
items for home preparation and consumption;
(b) public or private communal dining
facilities and meal delivery services; private nonprofit drug addict or
alcoholic treatment and rehabilitation programs; publicly operated community
mental health centers which conduct residential programs for drug addicts or
alcoholics;
(c) public or private
nonprofit group living arrangements, or public or private nonprofit shelters
for battered women and children, or public or private nonprofit establishments,
approved by HCA, or a local agency, that feed homeless persons;
(d) any private nonprofit cooperative food
purchasing venture, including those whose members pay for food prior to receipt
of the food; a farmer's market.
(6)
Retrospective budgeting:
means the computation of a household's benefits for an issuance month based on
actual income and circumstances that existed in the previous month, the
'budget" month.
S. Definitions beginning with "S":
(1)
Self-employed: means an
individual who engages in a self-managed enterprise for the purpose of
providing support and income and who does not have the usual withholding
deducted from this income. Self-employed individuals are not eligible to draw
UCB by virtue of their job efforts.
(2)
Shelter for battered
persons: means a public or private nonprofit residential facility that
serves battered persons. 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
persons.
(3)
Simplified
reporting: is the reporting requirement for households that receive SNAP
benefits.
(4)
Sponsor:
means a person who executed an affidavit(s) of support or similar agreement on
behalf of a non-citizen as a condition of the non-citizen's entry or admission
to the United States as a permanent resident.
(5)
Sponsored non-citizen: means
a non-citizen lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States as
an immigrant, as defined in Subsection 101(a)(15) and Subsection 101(a)(2) of
the Immigration and Nationality Act.
(6)
Spouse: means either of two
individuals who:
(a) would be defined as
married to each other under applicable state law; or
(b) are living together and are holding
themselves out to the community as husband and wife by representing themselves
as such to relatives, friends, neighbors, or trades people.
(7)
Stale: means EBT
accounts which have not been accessed or had any withdrawal activity by the
household for 90 days from the most recent date of withdrawal.
(8)
Standard utility allowance
(SUA): means an average utility amount used year round that includes the
actual expense of heating and cooling fuel, electricity (apart from heating or
cooling), the basic service fee for one telephone, water, sewerage, and garbage
and trash collection. This amount is adjusted annually to reflect changes in
expenses. A cooling expense is a verifiable utility expense relating to the
operation of air conditioning.
(9)
State wage information collection agency: means for New Mexico the
department of workforce solutions, employment security division (ESD) which
administers the state employment compensation law and provides a quarterly
report of employment related income and eligibility data.
(10)
Striker: means anyone
involved in a strike or concerted work stoppage by employees (including
stoppage due to the expiration of a collective bargaining agreement) and any
concerted slow down or other concerted interruption of operations by
employees.
(11)
Student: means an individual attending at least half time, as
defined by the institution any kindergarten, preschool, grade school, high
school, vocational school, technical school, training program, college, or
university.
(12)
Supplemental
nutrition assistance program (SNAP): The Food and Nutrition Act of 2008
changed the federal name of the food stamp program to the supplemental
nutrition assistance program. SNAP is synonymous with the food stamp
program.
(13)
Supplemental
nutrition assistance program trafficking: means:
(a) The buying, selling, stealing, or
otherwise effecting an exchange of SNAP benefits issued and accessed via
electronic benefit transfer (EBT) cards, card numbers and personal
identification numbers (PINs), or by manual voucher and signature, for cash or
consideration other than eligible food, either directly, indirectly, in
complicity or collusion with others, or acting alone;
(b) The exchange of firearms, ammunition,
explosives, or controlled substances, as defined in Section 802 of title 21,
United States Code, for SNAP benefits;
(c) Purchasing a product with SNAP benefits
that has a container requiring a return deposit with the intent of obtaining
cash by discarding the product and returning the container for the deposit
amount, intentionally discarding the product, and intentionally returning the
container for the deposit amount;
(d) Purchasing a product with SNAP benefits
with the intent of obtaining cash or consideration other than eligible food by
reselling the product, and subsequently intentionally reselling the product
purchased with SNAP benefits in exchange for cash or consideration other than
eligible food; or
(e) Intentionally
purchasing products originally purchased with SNAP benefits in exchange for
cash or consideration other than eligible food.
(14)
Supplemental security income
(SSI): means monthly cash payments made under the authority of:
(a) Title XVI of the Social Security Act, as
amended, to the aged, blind and disabled; or
(b) Section 1616(a) of the Social Security
Act; or
(c) Section 212(a) of P.L.
93-66.
(15)
SSI
household: means a household in which all members are applicants or
recipients of SSI. An SSI household may also apply for SNAP through a social
security office. The application must be forwarded to the appropriate SNAP
(ISD) office for processing. SSI households are categorically
eligible.
(16)
Supplementary
unemployment benefits (SUB): part of the guaranteed annual wage
provisions in the auto industry whereby the company supplements state UCB to
insure that laid off workers receive a guaranteed amount of income during the
layoff period.
T. Definitions beginning with "T":
(1)
Thrifty food plan (TFP): see maximum SNAP allotment.
(2)
Transitional food stamps: an
extension of SNAP benefits up to five months to certain households whose cash
assistance benefits have been terminated.
(3)
Transitional housing: means
housing for which the purpose is to facilitate the movement of homeless
individuals and families to permanent housing within 24 months, or such longer
period as is determined necessary. All types of housing meant to be
transitional should be considered as such for the purpose of determining
exclusion. The definition does not exclude specific types of housing and does
not require the presence of cooking facilities in a dwelling.
U. Definitions beginning with "U":
(1)
Unclear
information: Unclear information is information that is not verified, or
information that is verified but ISD needs additional information to act on the
change.
(2)
Universal basic
income: Universal basic income is a government-guaranteed program that
provides a modest cash income at regular intervals (e.g., each month or year)
to every individual or household to meet the basic needs.
V. Definitions beginning with "V":
(1)
Vehicles: means a
mode of transportation for the conveyance of passengers to or from employment,
daily living, or for the transportation of goods. Boats, trailers and mobile
homes shall not be considered vehicles, for purposes of SNAP.
(2)
Verification: means the use
of third-party information or documentation to establish the accuracy of
statements on the application.
W. Definitions beginning with "W": [RESERVED]
X. Definitions beginning with "X": [RESERVED]
Y. Definitions beginning with "Y": [RESERVED]
Z. Definitions beginning with "Z": [RESERVED]
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