SNAP: Transitional Food Benefits Overview

What are Transitional Food Benefits?

Current policy requires staff to separately determine food benefit eligibility when a TANF case closes. For some households, this has resulted in a reduction or termination of food benefits. Transitional Food Benefits was created to support welfare reform goals by providing an additional five (5) months of Food Benefits to certain TANF recipients whose TANF benefits are closing.

The way that TFB works is that it freezes income at the pre-TANF closing amount, minus the TANF grant, or higher for households leaving TANF, TFB, will last up to five months.

TFB is not available to those households that failed or refused to cooperate with certain TANF requirements.

Who is eligible?

  1. NO! NOT ELIGIBLE FOR TFB – Any case closed with the following reason codes:
    • 01 (Death)
    • 29B (TANF Extension – Failed or Refused to Meet the TANF Work Requirements)
    • 42 (Moved Out of State)
    • 52A (Failed or refused to Meet Work Registration Requirements)
  2. MAYBE! POSSIBLY ELIGIBLE FOR TFB – Any case closed with the following reason codes:
    • 46A (Client’s Request because of Employment)
    • 46B (Client’s Request because of Marriage)
    • 46C (Client’s Request because of Unspecified Reason)
  3. YES! DEFINITELY ELIGIBLE:
    • Any closure code not listed in 1 and 2 above
    • TANF Payee was included in active (open) Food Benefits on the TANF case

Refer to the following articles for additional information regarding Transitional Food Benefits:
SNAP: Correct Coding of Transitional Food Benefits (TFB)
SNAP: Transitional Food Benefits FAQS
AFS Policy: Transitional Food Benefits (TFB)

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