New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 10 - HUMAN SERVICES › Chapter 87 - NEW JERSEY SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (NJ SNAP) MANUAL › Subchapter 3 - ELIGIBILITY FACTORS OTHER THAN NEED › Section 10:87-3.12 - Eligibility to use benefits for prepared meals

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) The following
				individuals, if members of an eligible household, may use NJ SNAP benefits to
				purchase prepared meals from any communal dining facility, meal delivery
				service, substance abuse treatment center, group living arrangement, shelter
				for battered women and children or homeless meal provider which is currently
				authorized by FNS to accept NJ SNAP benefits.
1. Any member of an eligible household who is
				60 years of age or older or members who receive SSI may use all or any part of
				his or her NJ SNAP benefits to purchase meals prepared at a communal dining
				facility authorized by FNS for that purpose. In addition, if such household
				member lives with his or her spouse, the spouse may also use benefits to
				purchase meals from a communal dining facility.
2. Any member of an eligible household who is
				60 years of age or older, or members who are housebound, feeble, physically
				handicapped or otherwise disabled to the extent that they are unable to
				adequately prepare all their meals, may use all or any part of their benefits
				to purchase meals from a nonprofit meal delivery service. The spouse of such an
				individual may also use NJ SNAP benefits to purchase meals from a meal delivery
				service, regardless of age or disability.
3. Members of eligible households who are
				substance abusers and who regularly participate in a substance abuse treatment
				and rehabilitation program may use their benefits to purchase food prepared for
				them during the course of such program by a private nonprofit organization,
				institution or a publicly operated community mental health center authorized by
				FNS.
4. Members of eligible
				households who are residents of a private or public nonprofit facility, such as
				a GLA authorized by FNS to use their benefits to purchase food for meals served
				either communally or individually.
i. If the
				residents apply on their own behalf, the CWA shall certify these residents
				using the same provisions that apply to all households. If the FNS disqualifies
				the Group Living Arrangement (GLA) as an authorized retail food store, the CWA
				shall suspend its authorized representative status for the same time; but
				residents applying on their own behalf will still be able to participate in the
				NJ SNAP program, if otherwise eligible.
5. Residents of shelters for battered women
				and children may use their benefits to purchase meals prepared especially for
				them at a shelter which has been authorized by FNS to redeem benefits at
				wholesalers, or which redeems at retailers as the authorized representative of
				participating households.
6.
				Homeless NJ SNAP households who obtain meals prepared for and served by an
				authorized public or private nonprofit establishment such as a soup kitchen or
				temporary shelter approved by the DFD or its designee.
i. Homeless NJ SNAP households may use their
				benefits at restaurants who have entered into a contract with the CWA to
				provide meals to homeless individuals and who have been approved by FNS to
				accept NJ SNAP benefits.