FAA5.E Food Stamp Allotment Determination (FSAD) : 04 Nutrition Assistance Categorical Eligibility - Overview : B Expanded Categorical Eligibility
Expanded Categorical Eligibility
 
(01/01/22 – 12/31/22)
Expanded categorical eligibility exists when the budgetary unit does not have a participant keyed as DF on SEPA due to a disqualification, and 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 resources of all participants coded DI or DE on SEPA are not over the NA resource limit
 
NOTE Resources from a DI or DE participant are counted in full
 
When any participant in the budgetary unit meets the NA definition of Elderly or Disabled, the budgetary unit receives special considerations. (See Elderly or Have a Disability - NA Special Considerations)
 
AZTECS automatically considers an NA Expanded categorically eligible budgetary unit to have met the following NA eligibility factors:
 
●Gross and net income tests