Eligibility for Food Assistance requires that an individual is not a member of another household during the same period and the household are not subject to any sanctions. Once a sanction is imposed on an individual, it may have various impacts on a household member or household's eligibility or a reduction of the benefit amount.
The following household members, who live in the home, are not eligible for Food Assistance however their income and resources are counted in full and they are not included in the household size:
Note: The following rules apply to both application and reassessment
- Individual who participated as a member of more than 1 household/project area in any month OR
- Individual disqualified because they have been found guilty of committing an Intentional Program Violation (IPV) OR
- Individuals sanctioned for using Food Assistance in the sale of a controlled substance OR
- Individuals sanctioned for providing fraudulent information OR
- Individuals sanctioned for trafficking Food Assistance OR
- Individuals sanctioned for selling firearms OR
- Individual is sanctioned for non compliance with the food stamp work requirements OR
- Individual is sanctioned for voluntary quit OR
- Individuals sanctioned for violating a condition of federal or state probation or parole OR
- Individual has a sanction for being a fleeing felon OR
- Individuals sanctioned because of a drug related felony conviction OR
- Individual has failed or refused to register for work
Note: The following rules apply only on application
- Individual found guilty of using food stamps in the sale of a controlled substance OR
- Individual found guilty of trafficking food stamps to the value of $500 or more OR
- Individual has failed the voluntary quit rules OR
- Individual has an intentional program violation OR
- Individual has been convicted of a felony committed after 23rd August 1996 involving illegal drugs OR
- Individual has been convicted of having made a fraudulent representation or statement OR
- Individual is a fleeing felon OR
- Individual is on parole and violating Parole conditions OR
- Individual has been convicted of selling firearms