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6.1.1 Change Reporting

7 CFR Code of Federal Regulations 273.12

6.1.1.1 Change Reporting for EBD Food Units With No Earnings

6.1.1.2 Change Reporting for All Other Food Units

 

Change reporting policy depends on the type of food unit. There are two:

  1. EBD Elderly, Blind, or Disabled Food Units with no earnings, or

  2. All other Food Units

 

6.1.1.1 Change Reporting For EBD Food Units With No Earnings

Elderly, Blind, or Disabled (EBD) Food Units are those where all food unit members are elderly, blind, or disabled. If no one in this food unit has earned income, these food units are required to report the following changes within 10 days:

  1. Number of people in the home:

  1. When a person is born or dies

    1. When someone moves in or out

  1. Income:

  1. Unearned: New source- increases of more than $100 per month in child a person's biological, step, or adopted son or daughter, regardless of age. support income; increases of more than $50 per month in other types of unearned income.

    1. Earned: Changes in the source of income (a new job must be reported within 10 days from the start of the job, not from when the recipient received the job.

  1.  Address/Shelter Expense:

    1. New address when a move takes place.

    2. Change in shelter and utility expense obligations if a move occurs.

 

Changes must be reported to the FS FoodShare agency within 10 days of the date the change is known to the food unit, except for reporting receipt of a new job. Then the change must be reported within 10 days from when the job starts.

 

6.1.1.2 Change Reporting for All Other Food Units

All other food units are only required to report if their total monthly gross income exceeds 130% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) for their reported food unit size. This change must be reported by the 10th of the month following the month in which the total income exceeded 130% of the FPL.

 

As long as a food unit's total income is less than 130% of the FPL, a food unit need not report changes in income, assets, address changes, household composition, etc.

 

If a food unit has reported total income exceeding 130% FPL for their food unit size, and the food unit remains open for FS due to categorical eligibility, the food unit has fulfilled their change reporting requirement for the remainder of the FS certification period.

 

However, if any change is reported, or becomes known to the agency it must be acted upon.

See Chapter 5 for change reporting requirements for Transitional FoodShare (TFS) recipients.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This page last updated in Release Number: 04-04

Release Date: 10/27/04

Effective Date: 10/15/04