The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as Food Stamps, serves as the first line of defense against hunger. It enables low-income families to buy nutritious food with Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards. SNAP recipients spend their benefits to buy eligible food in authorized retail food stores.

 General Provisions

• 340:50-1-1. Purpose, legal base, and responsibilities
• 340:50-1-3. Utilization of benefits
• 340:50-1-5. Program and civil rights complaints and responsibilities
• 340:50-1-6. Disclosure of household and public information
• 340:50-1-8. Reporting racial/ethnic groups
• 340:50-1-9. Rights and Responsibilities

Application Process

• 340:50-3-1. The application process
• 340:50-3-2. Interview process
• 340:50-3-3. Verification

Non-Financial Eligibility Criteria

• 340:50-5-1. Food benefit household composition
• 340:50-5-4. Definition of elderly or disabled household member
• 340:50-5-5. Non-household members
• 340:50-5-7. Households or household members participating in a food distribution (FDP) operated by Indian tribal organizations (ITO)
• 340:50-5-7.1. Residents of institutions
• 340:50-5-10.1. Excluded household members
• 340:50-5-26. Drug addiction or alcoholic treatment centers
• 340:50-5-27. Disabled or blind residents of group homes
• 340:50-5-28. Shelter for victims of domestic violence and their children
• 340:50-5-29. Homeless households
• 340:50-5-45. Students
• 340:50-5-46. Strikers
• 340:50-5-48. Migrant farm laborers
• 340:50-5-49. Sponsored aliens
• 340:50-5-64.1. Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC)
• 340:50-5-65. Identity
• 340:50-5-66. Residence
• 340:50-5-67. Citizenship and alien status
• 340:50-5-68. Social Security numbers
• 340:50-5-85. Who must register
• 340:50-5-86. Persons exempt from work registration
• 340:50-5-87. Work registration procedures
• 340:50-5-89. Voluntary quit and reduction of work effort
• 340:50-5-92. Determination of good cause for voluntary quit or reduction in work effort;
• 340:50-5-94. Penalty for voluntary quit
• 340:50-5-100. Able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWD) work requirements and time limits;
• 340:50-5-101. Exemption to Able-Bodied Adult Without Dependents (ABAWD) Work Requirements; and
• 340:50-5-106. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Employment and Training (E&T) Program.

Financial Eligibility Criteria

• 340:50-7-1. Resources considered
• 340:50-7-6. Sponsored alien and non-categorically eligible resource requirements
• 340:50-7-22. Income exclusions
• 340:50-7-29. Income inclusions
• 340:50-7-30. Self-employed households
• 340:50-7-31. Deductions
• 340:50-7-45. Income
• 340:50-7-46. Converting to monthly income

Eligibility and Benefit Determination

• 340:50-9-1. Determining the food benefit allotment
• 340:50-9-3. Certification and denial notice information
• 340:50-9-4. Delayed applications
• 340:50-9-5. Changes after application and during the certification period
• 340:50-9-6. Procedures relating to food benefit certification renewals

Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT)

• • 340:50-10-1. Scope and applicability
  • 340:50-10-3. Initial Issuance of Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) card
  • 340:50-10-5. Replacement of lost, stolen, or destroyed Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards
  • 340:50-10-9. Expungement of benefits

Special Procedures

• 340:50-11-1. Expedited service screening, criteria, and time limits
• 340:50-11-3. Expedited service for migrant or seasonal farm laborers
• 340:50-11-5. Expedited services procedures and benefit issuance
• 340:50-11-20. Scope and application processing
• 340:50-11-23. Eligibility determination for households within the Simplified Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
• 340:50-11-27. Changes after application and during the certification period
• 340:50-11-46. Restoration of lost benefits
• 340:50-11-64. Destroyed food purchased with benefits
• 340:50-11-86. Emergency food benefit assistance in disasters declared by Food and Nutrition Service (FNS)
• 340:50-11-88. Mechanical disaster
• 340:50-11-89. Disaster reporting
• 340:50-11-105. Joint Social Security Income and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Application procedures
• 340:50-11-111. Categorically eligible household

Fair Hearings

• 340:50-13-2. Hearing based on any action relating to a food benefit or case
• 340:50-13-3. Quality control

Overpayments and Fraud

• 340:50-15-1. Scope and applicability
• 340:50-15-3. Overpayment claim procedures
• 340:50-15-4. Overpayments by classification
• 340:50-15-6. Development of repayment
• 340:50-15-7. Collection effort suspension or termination
• 340:50-15-25. Cases referred for intentional program violation determination
• 340:50-15-26. Reporting incidences of abuse in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
• 340:50-15-27. Other penalties for misuse of benefits