Application Timelines
The number of days allowed to process a regular SNAP application
What is 30 days?
For SNAP, the key phrase to learn about to determine who is included in the household
What are individuals who purchase and prepare meals together?
The time period for income that must be verified for a SNAP application
What is 30 days prior to the application date?
The methods for calculating the countable deductions for LIHEAP
What are regular or irregular?
The screen in SPACES that will capture the number of bedrooms for LIHEAP
What is the LIHEAP Details Screen?
The number of days you have to process an expedited SNAP application
What is 7 days?
For LIHEAP, the key concept for determining the household composition
What are all individuals physically residing in the unit?
For LIHEAP, the income method used when there is a $400 difference between consecutive months
What is averaging?
The four types of utility deductions allowed for SNAP
What is SUA, LUA, MUA, TL?
An action that you must take after authorizing the LIHEAP case
What is enter vendor associations?
What is enter manual payments?
The number of days after sending an RFV notice before a LIHEAP denial can be processed
What is 31 days?
For SNAP, the age at which individuals become exempt from work requirements
What is age 60 or older?
Also, what is younger than age 16?
Name a key question to ask households about future income
What is What income do you expect to receive?
For a LIHEAP application received in October 2025, the 12 window months used to calculate an irregular expense
What is October 2024 through September 2025?
Name the program that requires medical expenses to select a YES/NO answer to allow the expense standard.
What is SNAP?
The number of days you have to schedule a non-expedited SNAP interview
What is 5 calendar days from receipt?
The only verification required to meet the work registration requirement
What is the signed application or review form?
Method to calculate countable LIHEAP income for rental income received twice per year
What is annualizing?
A deduction that is allowed for LIHEAP but not SNAP
What is a garnishment?
Absent Worker/Student expense
For weekly or bi-weekly income records, name the key difference in how the records are created for LIHEAP or SNAP
What is entering the income amounts for each pay record in the month?
What is creating the records for three window months?
Action you will take if a LIHEAP applicant submits verifications after 30 days but before denial is processed
What is continue processing without requiring a new application?
The action you will take for a LIHEAP case when the PI is in the facility
Manually calculate the benefit and request an override
Type of income used for QSP income paid by the Department of Health & Human Services
What is self-employment?
The amount of the deduction for the SNAP medical expense standard
What is $175?
This screen must be reviewed closely before authorizing the LIHEAP benefits
What is the Income Budget Summary screen?