Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 340 - Department of Human Services
Chapter 50 - Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Subchapter 5 - Non-Financial Eligibility Criteria
Part 3 - SPECIAL HOUSEHOLDS
Section 340:50-5-29 - Homeless households

Universal Citation: OK Admin Code 340:50-5-29

Current through Vol. 42, No. 1, September 16, 2024

(a) A household is not required to have a fixed residence in order to receive food benefits. A homeless household may include one or more homeless persons.

(b) Per 271.2 of Title 7 of the Code of Federal Regulations ( 7 C.F.R. § 271.2) , homeless person means a person who lacks a fixed and regular nighttime residence or a person whose primary nighttime residence is a:

(1) supervised shelter designed to provide temporary accommodations;

(2) half-way house or similar institution providing temporary residence for persons intended to be institutionalized;

(3) temporary accommodation in the residence of another person of not more than 90-calendar days from the application date. The worker applies the 90-calendar day time frame to each subsequent temporary accommodation in a different household and location; or

(4) place not designed for, or ordinarily used, as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings, such as a hallway, bus station, lobby, car, or similar places.

(c) Per 7 C.F.R. § 273.2(f)(4)(v) and Oklahoma Administrative Code 340:50-7-31, when a homeless household incurs or expects to incur a shelter cost during the month, the household is eligible for the standard homeless shelter deduction, per Oklahoma Department of Human Services Appendix C-3, Maximum Food Benefit Allotments and Standards for Income and Deductions, or the excess shelter deduction, whichever results in the most food benefits for the household. Homeless shelter costs may include a monthly vehiclepayment when the household lives in the vehicle, payments to friends or neighbors for sleeping accommodations, camping fees, or hotel or motel charges .

Amended at 9 Ok Reg 3405, eff 5-13-92 (preemptive); Amended at 14 Ok Reg 220, eff 10-1-96 (preemptive); Amended at 17 Ok Reg 473, eff 10-12-99 (preemptive); Amended at 26 Ok Reg 840, eff 6-1-09

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