Action | Revise Guidelines for Counting Income Toward SNAP Eligibility |
Stage | Proposed |
Comment Period | Ended on 1/17/2014 |
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.