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Paying For Telephone Only (Telephone Allowance) - SNAP (Food Stamps)

This question determines if the Telephone Allowance will be used by WorkWORLD when it calculates your household's Excess Shelter Deduction, if any.

In the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly Food Stamp Program), if the only utility your household pays for is the telephone and the expense for the basic service fee is not fully reimbursed, then your household is eligible for the Telephone Allowance.

If your household is engaged in a self-employment business run out of its home and claims some of the telephone costs as costs of doing business and its utilities for the self-employment business are not measured and billed separately, then your household is not eligible for the telephone allowance.

If your household is eligible as described above, then you should answer "YES" when responding to this question. Otherwise, you should answer "NO".

If your household's response is "YES" and the household lives in a state that does not mandate the use of a utility standard, then based on your responses, WorkWORLD determines if it is to your advantage to use your actual utility costs or the standard for which you are eligible when determining your Shelter Deduction. If your household's response is "YES" and your household lives in a state that does mandate the use of a standard, WorkWORLD will use the Telephone Allowance when determining your household's Shelter Deduction.

If the household's response is "NO", WorkWORLD will not use any utility expenses when determining the Shelter Deduction.

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