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 <entry name="ABAWD" value="Able Bodied Adult Without Dependents" />
 <entry name="adult" value="a person who is 18 years old or older" />
 <entry name="AP" value="Absent Parent (also known as the NCP- Non-Custodial Parent)" />
 <entry name="C-Supp" value="Caretaker Supplement for Children" />
 <entry name="CAF" value="Combined Application Form" />
 <entry name="CARES" value="Client Assistance for Reemployment and Economic Support" />
 <entry name="CBRF" value="Community Based Residential Facility" />
 <entry name="CFR" value="Code of Federal Regulations" />
 <entry name="child" value="a person's biological, step, or adopted son or daughter, regardless of age." />
 <entry name="controlled substance" value="Illegal or unauthorized medicines, inhalants, drugs or narcotics including but not limited to: Marijuana, Heroin, Cocaine, LSD, Barbiturates, and Amphetamines. The term does not include distilled spirits, wine, malt beverages, caffeine or tobacco." />
 <entry name="CP" value="Custodial Parent" />
 <entry name="CS" value="Child Support" />
 <entry name="CSA" value="Child Support Agency" />
 <entry name="CSJ" value="Community Service Job" />
 <entry name="deem" value="Deem means allocate income, assets, and/or expenses to the food group from an individual not in the food group" />
 <entry name="DHS" value="Wisconsin's Department of Health Services. Until July 1, 2008 it was known as the Department of Health and Family Services." />
 <entry name="disregard" value="Disregard means do not count, exempt, or exclude" />
 <entry name="DVR" value="Division of Vocational Rehabilitation" />
 <entry name="EBD" value="Elderly, Blind, or Disabled" />
 <entry name="eFunds" value="eFunds is the current EBT vendor for Wisconsin." />
 <entry name="EITC" value="Earned Income Tax Credit" />
 <entry name="emancipated minor" value="A married, widowed or divorced person who is at least 16 years old, a minor who has given birth, a minor emancipated by court order, a minor emancipated by parental consent or a minor living on his or her own who is not supported by parents." />
 <entry name="EP" value="Employment Plan" />
 <entry name="ESS" value="Economic Support Specialist" />
 <entry name="FMHA" value="Farmer's Home Administration" />
 <entry name="FNS" value="Food and Nutrition Service" />
 <entry name="FS" value="FoodShare" />
 <entry name="FSET" value="FoodShare Employment and Training" />
 <entry name="FSH" value="FoodShare Wisconsin Handbook" />
 <entry name="General Relief" value="A program administered by counties and paid for jointly by counties and the state. This  program provides monthly cash grants and medical services." />
 <entry name="GR" value="General Relief" />
 <entry name="homeless" value="An individual who lacks a fixed and regular nighttime residence or an individual whose primary nighttime residence is:1) A supervised shelter designed to provide temporary accommodations (such as a welfare hotel or congregate shelter), 2) A halfway house or similar institution that provides temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized, 3) A temporary accommodation for not more than 90 days in the residence of another individual, or 4) A place not designed for, or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings (a hallway, bus station, a lobby, or similar places)." />
 <entry name="HS" value="High School" />
 <entry name="HSED" value="High School Equivalency Diploma" />
 <entry name="HUD" value="US Department of Housing &amp; Urban Development" />
 <entry name="IA" value="Interim Assistance: Payments made to an individual who has applied for SSI.  These payments are considered a loan and must be repaid to the local agency upon receipt of the individual's initial lump sum SSI payment." />
 <entry name="IMM" value="Income Maintenance Manual" />
 <entry name="INS" value="Immigration &amp; Naturalization Service" />
 <entry name="Interim Assistance" value="Payments made to an individual who has applied for SSI.  These payments are considered a loan and must be repaid to the local agency upon receipt of the individual's initial lump sum SSI payment." />
 <entry name="IPV" value="Intentional Program Violation" />
 <entry name="JAL" value="Job Access Loan" />
 <entry name="JS" value="Job Service" />
 <entry name="KIDS" value="Kids Information Data System" />
 <entry name="LIHEAP" value="Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program" />
 <entry name="LRR" value="Legally Responsible Relative" />
 <entry name="MA" value="Medical Assistance, also known as Medicaid or Title 19" />
 <entry name="migrant" value="any person who temporarily leaves a principal place of residence outside of his state and comes to this state for not more than 10 months in a year to accept seasonal employment in the planting, cultivating, raising, harvesting, handling, drying, packing, packaging, processing, freezing, grading, or storing of any agricultural or horticultural commodity in its unmanufactured state" />
 <entry name="minor" value="someone less than 18 years old who is under the parental control of an adult food unit member" />
 <entry name="NCP" value="Non-Custodial Parent" />
 <entry name="NLRR" value="Nonlegally Responsible Relative" />
 <entry name="NMCP" value="Nonmarital Coparent" />
 <entry name="non-participating household" value="a food unit or AG that is closed and not receiving FS benefits." />
 <entry name="OASDI" value="Old Age, Survivor and Disability Insurance" />
 <entry name="P&amp;P" value="Purchase and Prepare" />
 <entry name="parent" value="a person's biological, step, or adoptive mother or father regardless of age. Parenthood doesn't have to be verified" />
 <entry name="parental control" value="an adult providing parental control acts as a parent would toward the minor child.  A minor child is considered under parental control if the child is financially or otherwise dependent on a member of the household. Foster care providers do not meet the parental control definition." />
 <entry name="participating household" value="a food unit or AG that is still open and receiving FS benefits" />
 <entry name="postal holiday" value="1) January 1 - New Year's Day, 2) Third Monday in January -Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday , 3) Third Monday in February  - Washington's Birthday (President's Day), 4) Last Monday in May - Memorial Day, 5) July 4 - Independence Day, 6)  First Monday in September  - Labor Day, 7)  Second Monday in October  - Columbus Day, 8) Second Monday in November - Veterans Day Observed, 9) Fourth Thursday in November  - Thanksgiving Day, 10) December 25 - Christmas Day" />
 <entry name="PWE" value="Primary Wage Earner" />
 <entry name="QA" value="Quality Assurance" />
 <entry name="QC" value="Quality Control" />
 <entry name="RFA" value="Request For Assistance" />
 <entry name="RNIP" value="Relief for Needy Indian Persons" />
 <entry name="RRB" value="Railroad Retirement Board" />
 <entry name="SEIRF" value="Self-employment Income Report Form" />
 <entry name="sibling" value="brother, sister, half-brother, half-sister, stepbrother, stepsister, and siblings related through adoption" />
 <entry name="spouse" value="A person recognized by Wisconsin law as another person's legal husband or wife.  Wisconsin does not recognize common law marriage." />
 <entry name="SSA" value="Social Security Administration" />
 <entry name="SSI" value="Supplemental Security Income" />
 <entry name="SSN" value="Social Security Number" />
 <entry name="stepparent" value="The spouse of a person who is the biological parent of a child.  A stepparent that is divorced from a biological parent is no longer considered a stepparent." />
 <entry name="SUA" value="Standard Utility Allowance" />
 <entry name="TANF" value="Temporary Assistance for Needy Families" />
 <entry name="TPL" value="Third Party Liability" />
 <entry name="UC" value="Unemployment Compensation" />
 <entry name="USDA" value="United States Department of Agriculture" />
 <entry name="VA" value="Veterans Affairs" />
 <entry name="VISTA" value="Volunteers In Service To America" />
 <entry name="W-2" value="Wisconsin Works" />
 <entry name="W-2T" value="W-2 Transition employment position" />
 <entry name="WIA" value="Workforce Investment Act (replaced JTPA - Job Training Partnership Act)" />
 <entry name="WIC" value="Women, Infant's, and Children Supplemental Food Program" />

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