Ohio Administrative Code › Title 5101:4 - Division of Food Stamps › Chapter 5101:4-2 - Application Process › Section 5101:4-2-03 - Food assistance: assistance group definitions

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) What is an
			 assistance group?
An assistance group is composed of one of the following
				individuals or groups of individuals provided they are not residents of an
				institution, are not residents of a commercial boarding house, or are not
				boarders, except as otherwise specified in paragraph (E) of this rule.
(1) Individual: An individual living alone or
			 who, while living with others, customarily purchases food and prepares meals
			 for home consumption separate and apart from the others.
(2) Groups: a group of individuals who live
			 together and customarily purchase food and prepare meals together for home
			 consumption.
(3) Spouses: a person
			 living with his or her spouse, as defined in rule
			 5101:4-1-03 of the
			 Administrative Code, shall be considered as customarily purchasing food and
			 preparing meals together, even when they do not do so.
(4) Children living with their parents: any
			 person under the age of twenty-two who lives with the parent(s) (natural,
			 adopted, or step) must be included in the same assistance group with the
			 parent(s). When a person under the age of twenty-two has a spouse and/or
			 child(ren) of his or her own, the spouse and child(ren) of the person must also
			 be included in the same assistance group.
(5) Person under parental control: persons
			 (excluding children for whom the following payments are received: foster care,
			 guardianship, kinship support program, or state kinship guardianship assistance
			 program when the child is not also in receipt of Ohio works first (OWF)) under
			 eighteen years of age and unmarried living with and are under the parental
			 control of another household member who is not their natural, adoptive, or step
			 parent (including children for whom federal kinship guardianship assistance
			 program payments are received, or state kinship guardianship assistance program
			 payments are received and the child is also in receipt of OWF) shall be treated
			 as customarily purchasing and preparing meals together for home consumption
			 even when they do not do so. Note: "parental control" refers to unmarried
			 minors who are dependents-financial or otherwise-of another household member as
			 opposed to independent units. Persons under age eighteen who are married are
			 considered emancipated and are not to be automatically considered as
			 customarily purchasing and preparing meals together unless they state they are
			 actually doing so.
(6) Elderly and
			 disabled individual: although a group of individuals living together and
			 purchasing and preparing meals together constitutes a single assistance group
			 based on paragraph (A)(2) of this rule, an otherwise eligible member of such an
			 assistance group who is sixty years of age or older and unable to purchase and
			 prepare meals because he/she suffers from a disability considered permanent
			 under the Social Security Act of 1935 or suffers from a non disease-related,
			 severe, permanent disability may be a separate assistance group from the
			 others, other than his spouse, provided the income (all income included in rule
			 5101:4-4-19 of the
			 Administrative Code) of the others with whom the individual resides (excluding
			 the income of the spouse of the elderly and disabled individual) does not
			 exceed one hundred sixty-five per cent of the poverty level (FSP-14 "Separate
			 Assistance Group Income Standards-Elderly and Disabled Assistance Groups
			 Only").
(7)
									An unaccompanied minor: a homeless individual who is not
			 living with their parent(s) (natural, adopted, or step) and is not under the
			 parental control of a household member as described in paragraph (A)(5) of this
			 rule. While some homeless minors may fall under parental control of a
			 non-parent household member, other homeless minors are not.