Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SYSTEM › Title 475 - SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM › Chapter 4 - BENEFITS › Section 475-4-004 - HOUSEHOLD RESPONSIBILITY TO REPORT

Current through June 17, 2024
An applying household must report all changes relating to its
	 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program eligibility and benefit level at the
	 certification interview.
004.01
REPORTING CATEGORIES.
The following defines the
  Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program reporting categories.
004.01(A)
HOUSEHOLDS ASSIGNED TO
  SIMPLIFIED REPORTING.
All households will be assigned to
  Simplified Reporting unless they are excluded from this reporting category. The
  household is assigned to the Simplified Reporting category at application or at
  recertification. When the household is assigned to the Simplified Reporting
  category, the household remains in this reporting category until the end of the
  certification period, unless the household becomes eligible to be assigned to
  the Transitional Benefit Reporting category.
004.01(A)(i)
HOUSEHOLDS EXCLUDED
  FROM SIMPLIFIED REPORTING.
Households whose Aid to Dependent
  Children Program cash grant has ended are excluded from Simplified Reporting
  and will be assigned to the Transitional Benefit Reporting category.
004.01(A)(ii)
DETERMINING
  TIMEFRAMES FOR SIMPLIFIED REPORTING HOUSEHOLDS.
Households
  assigned to Simplified Reporting at initial determination of eligibility or at
  recertification in which all adult members are elderly or disabled with no
  earned income will be given a 12 month certification period. All other
  households assigned to Simplified Reporting at initial determination of
  eligibility or at recertification will be given a six month certification
  period.
004.01(A)(ii)(1)
CHANGES
  TO TIMEFRAME.
No changes will be made to shorten or lengthen a
  correctly determined certification period in Simplified Reporting during an
  ongoing certification period, unless the household becomes eligible to be
  assigned to the Transitional Benefit Reporting category.
004.01(A)(iii)
SIMPLIFIED
  REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.
Households assigned to the Simplified
  Reporting category are only required to report when the household's actual
  total gross monthly income exceeds the maximum gross monthly income limit for
  the household size, or when the household contains a non-exempt Able Bodied
  Adult Without Dependents whose hours decrease below 20 hours per week or below
  a total of 80 hours per month. The household must report information within ten
  days after the last day of the month in which the change occurred. These are
  the only changes a household assigned to the Simplified Reporting category must
  report during the certification period. All other changes are reported at
  recertification.
004.01(A)(iii)(1)
ACTION WHEN AID TO DEPENDENT CHILDREN PROGRAM GRANT
  ENDS.
When the household is currently assigned to the Simplified
  Reporting category and the Aid to Dependent Children program grant ends due to
  going over the Aid to Dependent Children program's income limit, the household
  will be assigned to Transitional Benefit Reporting if they are otherwise
  eligible for that reporting category. The household will be assigned to the
  Transitional Benefit Reporting category the month the household receives the
  Aid to Dependent Children Program Transitional Medical Assistance grant or the
  month after the Aid to Dependent Children Program grant ends when a
  Transitional Medical Assistance grant is not authorized.
004.01(A)(iii)(2)
ACTION ON
  INTERFACE CHANGES.
The Department will take action on all
  information received through automated exchanges.
004.01(A)(iii)(3)
ACTION ON OTHER
  CHANGES.
Action will be taken on all reported changes even if the
  household was not required to report the change. Action will also be taken on
  information reported to the agency by someone outside the Supplemental
  Nutrition Assistance Program household.
004.01(A)(iii)(4)
ACTION WHEN
  HOUSEHOLD RECEIVED OVERPAYMENT OF SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
  BENEFITS.
During the certification period if the household fails
  to report when the household income exceeded the maximum gross monthly income
  limit for the household size, the Department will determine if an overpayment
  occurred. The first month of the overpayment is two months after the actual
  monthly income exceeded the maximum monthly gross income limit.
004.01(A)(iii)(5)
ACTION WHEN
  HOUSEHOLD RECEIVED UNDERISSUANCE OF SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
  BENEFITS.
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits are
  not restored to Simplified Reporting households that fail to report changes at
  application and/or reapplication.