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Post-Secondary Students - SNAP (Food Stamps)

In the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly Food Stamp Program), attending "institutions of higher learning" may affect a person's eligibility. Unless categorically eligible, post-secondary students must meet at least one of the criteria listed below to be eligible.

NOTE: If you included a post-secondary student in your SNAP (Food Stamps) household who does not meet at least one of the criteria listed below, you should go back and change your WorkWORLD answer now.

If a household member who is a post-secondary student meets one of the following criteria, then he or she is eligible for SNAP and should be counted when determining how many people you customarily purchase and prepare food with/for:

·        under age 18 or over age 49;

·        physically or mentally unable to work;

·        employed and paid for at least 20 hours per week or self-employed for a minimum of 20 hours per week and paid the equivalent of working at least 20 hours per week at the Federal minimum hourly wage (this includes on-the-job training, internships, and apprenticeships);

·        participating in a state or Federally-financed work study program;

·        responsible for the physical care of a dependent household member under the age of six;

·        responsible for the physical care of a dependent household member ages six through 11 when adequate child care is not available;

·        a single parent attending an institution of higher education full-time with responsibility for a child under 12; or

·        assigned to an institution of higher education through a program under the Workforce Investment Act, Trade Adjustment Act, or Trade Readjustment Act.

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