Arkansas Administrative Code › Agency 016 - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES › Division 20 - Division of County Operations › Rule 016.20.98-021 - TEA 98-8, IMF 98-7, FSC 98-12 - Simplified Food Stamp Program

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, June, 2024
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Intent of Simplified Food Stamp Program
The Simplified Food Stamp Program (SFSP) provides TEA Cash
				Assistance Program participants with their basic food needs while the parent or
				other adult relative works toward increasing his or her earnings
				potential.
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Program Design
The following SFSP requirements will be based on TEA policy:
				residency, Social Seciuity Numbers, income and resources. (NOTE: The TEA Cash
				Assistance payment must be counted as income in the SFSP budget.)
Households that participate in the SFSP will not have to meet
				any work requirements in addition to the TEA Cash Assistance Program work
				requirements. TEA Cash Assistance recipients who are students will not have to
				meet the Food Stamp Program student requirements. SFSP participants will have
				no change reporting requirements in addition to the TEA Cash Assistance
				reporting requirements.
OTIZENSHIP REQUIREMENTS FOR FOOD STAMP PROGRAM RECIPIENTS ARE
				BASED ON LAW AND CANNOT BE WAIVED. ANYONE WHO IS NOT A U.S. CITIZEN MUST MEET
				THE REGULAR FOOD STAMP PROGRAM CITIZENSHIP REQUIREMENTS AS SPECIFIED IN TEA
				10101 BEFORE HE OR SHE IS ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SFSP.
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Household Composition
A food stamp household must meet one of the following
				descriptions:
* An individual who lives alone.
* A group of individuals who live together and customarily
				purchase food and prepare meals together.
* An individual or a group of individuals who live with others
				and customarily (more than 50% of the time) purchase food and prepare meals for
				home consumption separate and apart from the others.
* An individual who is living with others but is unable to
				purchase and prepare meals due to a permanent disability such as, but not
				limited to, senility. This type of household may include the individual and his
				or her spouse regardless of the physical condition or age of the spouse. All
				income of the individual or the spouse will be counted in the food stamp
				budget. The income of all other household members will be disregarded; however,
				the total gross non-excludable income of all other household members may not
				exceed 165% of the maximum net income standard as shown on the
Food Stamp Basis of Issuance Charts. Exhibit
				A
.
Separate household status will not be granted under any
				circumstance to:
* The spouse of a hoxisehold member;
* Children under the age of 22, regardless of marital status,
				who live with a natural, adoptive, or stepparent;
* Siblings, regardless of marital status, who live together if
				one sibling is age 17 or younger; or
* Children under the age of 17, regardless of marital status,
				who are imder the parental control of another household member even if that
				household member is not a parent or a sibling.
Individuals under the age of 22 who do not meet one of these
				restrictions may participate in the Food Stamp Program as a separate household
				if otherwise eligible.
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Households to be Served in the Simplified Food Stamp Program
Only households where all household members receive TEA Cash
				Assistance fir a combination of TEA Cash Assistance and SSI benefits will
				participate in the SFSP. Households with children not added to the TEA Cash
				Assistance grant solely due to the family cap provisions of TEA 4131 will
				participate in the SFSP. These children will be included in the SFSP
				household.
Households with children not added to the TEA Cash Assistance
				grant solely due to the family cap provisions are not categorically eligible to
				receive food stamp benefits. These households must meet the Food Stamp Program
				resource limits and the gross income limits for the SFSP household including
				the cMld affected by the Family Cap provisions. See TEA 10104-10106 for
				additional information.
Households that participate in the SFSP will be classified on
				the Food Stamp Automated Customer Tracking System (FACTS) as public assistance
				(PA) households.
8/1/98
Recipients of TEA Diversion Assistance as specified in TEA 2010
				will not participate in the SFSP. Any Diversion Assistance recipient who is not
				currently receiving food stamp benefits may submit a
Food
				Stamp Application
(DCO-220) through the county office's
				normal procedures. Diversion Assistance recipients will be classified as NA
				households on the Food Stamp Automated Customer Tracking System (FACTS).
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Citizenship
			 Requirements for SFSP
Participation in the SFSP is limited to U.S. citizens and to
				the non-citizens described in this section.
For up to five years from the date of admission
				under one of the specified criteria, any alien who:
* Was granted asylum under Section 208 of the IN A;
* Was granted status as a refugee under Section 207 of the
				INA;
* Had deportation withheld under Section 243 (h) or, after
				April U 1997, Section 241 (b)(3) of the INA;
* Was admitted as an Amerasian immigrant pursuant to Section
				584 of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs
				Appropriations Action of 1988; or
* Is a Cuban or Haitian entrant under 501(e) of the Reftigee
				Assistance Act of 1988.
For refugees admitted under Section 207 of the INA, fhe five
				year count begins the date the alien was granted the particular status. For
				other aliens, the five year count begins the date the alien was granted the
				particular status.
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			 Any alien who is currently admitted for permanent residence as defined in
			 Section 101 (a) (2) of the INA and who:
* Can be credited with 40 quarters of qualified work (their
				own, a spouse's or a parent's); or
* Is a veteran of or is on active duty in the U.S. armed
				forces; or
* Is the spouse or dependent child of an individual who is a
				veteran of or who is on active duty in the U.S. armed forces.
2. Any alien who is a veteran of or is on
			 active duty in the U.S. armed forces OR any alien who is the spouse and/or
			 dependent child of an individual with a military connection if the
alien
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* Was granted asylum under Section 208 of the IN A;
* Was granted status as a refugee under Section 207 of the IN
				A;
* Had deportation withheld under Section 243(h) or, after April
				1,1997, Section 241 (b)(3) of the INA;
* Is a Cuban or Haitian entrant under Section 501 (e) of the
				Refugee Assistance Act of 1988;
* Is a conditional entrant under Section 203(a) (7) of the INA;
				or
* Has been a parolee for at least one year under Section 212
				(d) (5) of the INA.
3.
			 Under certain conditions, an alien who is a battered spouse or battered child
			 of a veteran or a person who is on active duty in the U.S. armed forces. The
			 nonabusive parent of a battered child or the dependent child of a battered
			 spouse may also meet the citizenship requirements under this provision.
A qualifying quarter of work as specified in item 1 above
				includes one worked by the alien, one worked by a parent (natural adoptive or
				step) of an alien while the alien was under the age of 18. It also includes any
				quarter worked by a spouse during the marriage if the alien remains married to
				the spouse or the spouse is deceased. Any quarter during which the alien
				received SSI, Medicaid or TEA is not a qualifying quarter of work.
Ineligible aliens include all other aliens such as, but not
				limited to:
* Visitors and tourists;
* Students;
* Diplomats;
* Aliens admitted imder color of law;
* Aliens who have applied for eligible status but have not yet
				been approved (except for battered spouses and/or children with a military
				connection); and
* Aliens whose status is questionable or unverified.