New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 10 - HUMAN SERVICES › Chapter 87 - NEW JERSEY SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (NJ SNAP) MANUAL › Subchapter 2 - THE APPLICATION PROCESS › Section 10:87-2.32 - Categorically eligible WFNJ/TANF/SSI households

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) Any household,
				except those listed in (c) below, in which all members are authorized to
				receive WFNJ/TANF/SSI benefits shall be considered categorically eligible for
				the NJ SNAP program, unless the household is institutionalized or disqualified
				for any reason from receiving NJ SNAP benefits. This includes the following
				households: those in which all members receive or are authorized to receive
				cash through a public assistance program funded in full or in part with Federal
				Title IV-A or New Jersey State money counted as Maintenance of Effort (MOE)
				purposes; those in which all members receive or are authorized to receive
				non-cash or in-kind benefits, funded with more than 50 percent State money
				counted as MOE or Federal money under Title IV-A designed to forward purposes
				one and two of the TANF block grant; and those in which all members receive or
				are authorized to receive non-cash or in-kind benefits, funded with more than
				50 percent State money designed to forward purposes three and four of the TANF
				block grant, and requires participants to have a gross monthly income at or
				below 200 percent of the Federal poverty level.
1. Residents of public institutions applying
				jointly for SSI and NJ SNAP benefits shall not be categorically eligible upon a
				finding by the Social Security Administration (SSA) of potential SSI
				eligibility prior to release. Those individuals shall be considered
				categorically eligible when a final SSI eligibility has been made and the
				individual has been released from the institution.
2. "Authorized to receive" means that an
				individual is considered a recipient if he or she has been determined eligible
				for WFNJ/TANF/SSI, but, is not receiving a money payment, chooses not to
				receive a money payment, or, is not currently entitled to a money
				payment.
3. Categorically eligible
				recipients shall include those persons determined eligible to receive
				WFNJ/TANF/SSI but currently not entitled to cash benefits; that is, persons
				whose benefits are being recovered and/or suspended subject to retrospective
				budgeting when the household is temporarily ineligible in a prior budget month,
				and WFNJ/TANF recipients whose benefits are less than $ 10.00 and are therefore
				not payable.
4. A household
				containing a member who is suspended from SSI for noncompliance with substance
				abuse treatment requirements shall not be categorically eligible for NJ SNAP
				benefits. The household's NJ SNAP eligibility would be calculated without
				including any SSI benefit as income for the suspended individual. (SSI
				installments are not issued during the suspension period.) The household cannot
				be considered categorically eligible as SSI recipients again until that
				individual either ends his or her suspension, resumes receipt of SSI or leaves
				the household.
5. A household whose
				TANF grant has been capped by the birth of an additional child is categorically
				eligible for NJ SNAP benefits.