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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If anyone is actually interested in what constitutes a household for SNAP purposes (from http://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/eligibility):

What is a Household?

Everyone who lives together and purchases and prepares meals together is grouped together as one household. However, if a person is 60 years of age or older and he or she is unable to purchase and prepare meals separately because of a permanent disability, the person and the person's spouse may be a separate household if the others they live with do not have very much income.  (More than 165 percent of the poverty level.)

Some people who live together, such as husbands and wives and most children under age 22, are included in the same household, even if they purchase and prepare meals separately.

Normally people are not eligible for SNAP benefits if an institution gives them their meals. However, there is one exception for elderly persons and one for disabled persons:

Residents of federally subsidized housing for the elderly may be eligible for SNAP benefits, even though they receive their meals at the facility.
Disabled persons who live in certain nonprofit group living arrangements (small group homes with no more than 16 residents) may be eligible for SNAP benefits, even though the group home prepares their meals for them.[/quote]

Exactly. So if an extended family living together choose to prepare and purchase their meals together, they are one household.

If you have separate families living together who are each responsibile for buying food for their own families, they do NOT need to be counted as one household. [/quote]

Yes, and I'm sure all the immigrant families shacking up together that prepare and eat their meals together are being very careful to report the income of all family members when they request public assistance. [/quote]

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