Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Social Services
 
Board
State Board of Social Services
 
chapter
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program [22 VAC 40 ‑ 601]
Action Revise Guidelines for Counting Income Toward SNAP Eligibility
Stage Proposed
Comment Period Ended on 1/17/2014
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1/8/14  1:29 pm
Commenter: B.J. Dove, BPRO, Frederick County Dept of Social Services

Proration of income for undocumented aliens in SNAP households
 

In order to make policy consistent for all households in the SNAP program, we should count all income of household members over 18 who eat together as a household.  If you have a 5 person household and one HH member is working it should not matter that that person is an ilegal alien and we only count part of the working person's income. That income is available to all household memebers who eat meals together just as it would be to a 5 person household if all the members were US citizens or documented aliens. Do we really think for one minute that the person not being counted is not eating the food purchased with those benefits and that that household is not benefitting from all of that person's income?  This is turly an inequality in SNAP policy that should be reviewed and corrected.

CommentID: 29898