FAA5.E Food Stamp Allotment Determination (FSAD) : 04 Nutrition Assistance Categorical Eligibility - Overview : B Expanded Categorical Eligibility
B Expanded Categorical Eligibility
 
(01/01/17 – 12/31/17)
Expanded categorical eligibility exists when all of the following apply to the budgetary unit:
 
●Gross income does not exceed 185% of the current federal poverty level (FPL)
●The NA budgetary unit does not meet Basic categorical eligibility requirements
●The budgetary unit does not have a participant coded DF on SEPA due to a disqualification. (See NA Participants Keyed as DF)
●The resources of all participants coded DI on SEPA are not over the NA resource limit
 
WARNING
A participant in the budgetary unit may meet the NA definition of elderly or disabled. In this situation both of the following apply:
●The budgetary unit receives special considerations. (See Elderly or Disabled NA Requirements.)
●Expanded categorical eligibility applies to the budgetary unit only when the budgetary unit's gross income does not exceed 185% of the current FPL and no participant is coded DF on SEPA.
 
Consider an NA Expanded categorically eligible budgetary unit to have met the following NA eligibility factors:
 
●Gross and net income tests
 
EXCEPTION
Resources of participants disqualified from participation and coded DI on SEPA count in full.