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Vendor Payments/Third Party Payments - SNAP (Food Stamps)

In the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly Food Stamp Program), vendor payments are money payments made on behalf of a household by a person or organization outside of the household directly to either the household's creditors or to a person or organization providing a service to the household.

The following public assistance vendor payments are excluded, and therefore do not count as household income:

·        Medical assistance;

·        Child care assistance;

·        Emergency assistance (including but not limited to housing and transportation payments) for migrant or seasonal farm-worker households while they are in the job stream; and

·        Housing assistance payments for households living in transitional housing for the homeless.

In addition, vendor payments made under a state or local general assistance program or a comparable basic assistance program are excluded from income except for some vendor payments for housing.

A housing vendor payment is counted as income unless the payment is for:

·        Assistance provided for utility costs;

·        Housing assistance from a state or local housing authority;

·        Emergency assistance for migrant or seasonal farm-worker households while they are in the job stream; or

·        Housing assistance for households living in transitional housing for the homeless.

Rent or mortgage payments made to landlords or mortgagees by the Department of Housing and Urban Development are excluded.

All other third party payments on behalf of a household are excluded if the third party is using funds that are not owed to the household.

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