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Wages Or Salaries - SNAP (Food Stamps)

In the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly Food Stamp Program), wages are the pay an employee receives from another person or organization in return for work performed. All wages and salaries of an employee are counted as earned, including garnished wages and wages withheld at the request of the employee.

Count an employee's wages/salary, tips, wages/salary paid during a vacation or illness, and severance pay as earnings.

Count a wage advance as earnings when the employer actually pays it. It should not be recounted when the money is withheld to offset the advance.

If an individual receives advance Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) payments in his/her paycheck, this amount should be subtracted from earnings.

Also, count wages held at the employee's request. However, wages held as a general practice by the employer are not income until actually paid.

If a person is on strike, count the higher of:

·        his/her earnings if not on strike, or

·        his/her current earnings.

Do not count the earned income of any household member:

·        who is under age 18;

·        who is an elementary or secondary school student (or is attending GED classes); and

·        is a child, stepchild, or foster child of a household member or who is under the parental control of a household member.

This exclusion continues to apply during temporary interruptions in school attendance due to semester or vacation breaks, provided the child's enrollment will continue following the break.

If you cannot determine the portion of the household's earnings that are the child's, prorate the total among the earners and exclude one share as attributable to the child.

Do not count income set aside for a PASS in which a household member receiving SSI participates.

Do not count income earned under a work supplementation or support program that is attributable to public assistance, i.e., TANF.

Do not count either the income of ineligible students except for income that the ineligible student actually contributes to household members.

Combat Pay is excluded under a recent law.

Exclude payments from on-the-job training programs under the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 (successor to the Job Training Partnership Act) to persons under 19 years of age who are under the parental control of another adult group member, regardless of school attendance and/or enrollment. For the purpose of this provision, earnings include monies paid by the WIA and monies paid by employers.

If wages/salary are not received on a monthly basis, then

·        if payments are received weekly, multiply by 4.3, and round to the nearest cent;

·        if payments are received bi-weekly, multiply by 2.15, and round to the nearest cent; and

·        if payments are received semi-monthly, multiply by 2.

If the payments received in a month are not identical, then average the payments and convert this average figure to a monthly amount.

If your household resides in Indiana and includes an employed TANF recipient, do not count the earnings of a household member who receives TANF for the first six months after s/he initially begins working.

If your household resides in Connecticut and includes one or more employed TANF recipients, their earnings may be disregarded under some circumstances. Click on the above link for information about how to determine if the TANF recipients' earnings are countable or excluded.

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