74.04.750 - Reporting requirements -- Food stamp allotments and rent or housing subsidies, consideration as income.

Reporting requirements — Food stamp allotments and rent or housing subsidies, consideration as income.

(1) Applicants and recipients under this title must satisfy all reporting requirements imposed by the department.

     (2) The secretary shall have the discretion to consider: (a) Food stamp allotments or food stamp benefits transferred electronically and/or (b) rent or housing subsidies as income in determining eligibility for and assistance to be provided by public assistance programs. If the department considers food stamp allotments or food stamp benefits transferred electronically as income in determining eligibility for assistance, applicants or recipients for any grant assistance program must apply for and take all reasonable actions necessary to establish and maintain eligibility for food stamps or food stamp benefits transferred electronically.

[1998 c 79 § 13; 1981 2nd ex.s. c 10 § 1.]