SUA
The Standard Utility Allowance amount.
What is $465?
True or False. The homeless shelter deduction is an alternative to the excess shelter deduction for homeless households that do not receive free shelter.
What is True?
LITE screen where expenses, such as mortgage, rent, property taxes or homeowner's insurance are entered.
What is the Shelter Expense Details screen?
True or False. Allow a BUA for households that incur utility expenses which DO include heating/cooling costs separate from their rent/mortgage.
What is False? A BUA is allowed when utility expenses DO NOT include heating/cooling costs separate from rent/mtg.
The Telephone Standard amount.
What is $76.00?
True or False. Client lives with another household and pays rent and helps with the utility cost, which include heating/cooling costs is NOT eligible for SUA.
What is False? If they are paying for heating/cooling separately from rent, SUA is allowed.
The Homeless Shelter Deduction amount.
What is $198.99?
The LITE screen that will determine the correct utility allowance by entering "yes or no" or the types of utility expenses.
What is the Utility Expense-Details screen?
The Basic Utility Allowance amount.
What is $258.00?
Shelter expenses are allowed for a home unoccupied because of these reasons.
What is employment or training away from home, illness, or vacated due to a natural disaster of casualty loss?
True or False. Renters who are billed separately for electric and gas by their landlords are eligible for the SUA.
What is True? (If Electric and Gas are for Heating and Cooling)
True or False. A homeless household is eligible to receive the homeless shelter deduction having a cell phone expense.
What is True?
The LITE screen(s) where you would request verification to determine whether it's a vendor payment or a contribution from someone that is helping the household with shelter expenses.
What is the Unearned Income-Details and the Unearned Income-Payments screen?
True or False. A household that has cooling cost by operating an air conditioner is eligible for BUA.
What is False?
This cannot be allowed when the SUA or BUA is used, or when its cost is included in the rent.
What is the Telephone Standard?
A primary source(s) for heating and/or cooling that determines a household is eligible for SUA.
What are portable space heaters, central air/heat, window air conditioners?
A homeless household must meet these 2 criteria to claim their actual costs instead of claiming the homeless shelter deduction.
What is their actual costs are higher and verified?
The LITE screen that includes a question to ask a homeless household if they want to budget the actual shelter expense, if more than the homeless shelter deduction.
What is the "Household Address and Contact-Details" screen?
True or False. Residents of public housing who are responsible for excess utilities which DO include heating/cooling costs are eligible for BUA.
What is False? BUA is allowed if excess utilities DO NOT include heating/cooling costs.
Three types of shelter expenses.
What is Rent, Mortgage, Property Taxes, Homeowner's Insurance and Private Mtg Ins., Utility cost, Condo or HOA fees?
A SNAP household must pay for this, separate from their rent or mortgage, to be eligible for SUA.
What is heating or cooling cost?
Three reasons a SNAP household can receive the Homeless Shelter Deduction.
What is meet the SNAP definition of a homeless household, have an out-of-pocket shelter expense, and choose the Homeless Shelter Deduction?
The LITE screen(s) that you view to determine that you are correctly budgeting all shelter related expenses.
What is the SNAP Net Income/Benefit Calculation screen?
Basic Utility Allowance includes these types of utility costs that are not used for heating/cooling.
What are the cost of cooking fuel, water, sewerage, or garbage/trash collection?
The Policy reference for Shelter Costs.
What is B-654-SNAP-PO?