211.11 Who Is Not a Member SR 96-51, 09/96 (FSM-A)

Do not include the following in the food stamp household:

• Fugitive felons or probation or parole violators.

• Individuals who have fraudulently received multiple benefits.

• Nonhousehold members who reside with the certified household. Nonhousehold members are the following:

- roomers,

- live-in attendants,

- ineligible students,

- ineligible aliens, or

- others sharing living quarters but purchasing and preparing meals separately.

• Boarders, including foster care children who are not considered members of the certified household with whom they live.

• Residents of institutions who receive more than half of the available meals from an institution that is not authorized to accept food stamps.

Exception: Residents of authorized group living arrangements, drug or alcohol treatment programs, shelters for the homeless or battered women and children, or federally subsidized housing for the elderly (built under Section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959 or Section 236 of the National Housing Act) may be eligible.

• New household members who are still certified in another household.

Exceptions: When a new household has splintered off an existing household and is still open in the original household because the advance notice period has yet to expire, the new household will be eligible in the second month because members have not participated in that month.

Residents in shelters for battered women and children may receive up to 2 allotments in 1 month if all of the following apply:

- the former household’s allotment was based on a household size that included the woman and her children, and

- the former household includes the individual who subjected them to abuse or threatened to abuse them.