Section 12-14-30-4 - Expanded categorical eligibility; countable asset limitation; report(a) The division shall notify the United States Department of Agriculture and take any other action necessary for the state to:(1) elect to participate in; and(2) implement, beginning January 1, 2018; expanded categorical eligibility within SNAP.
(b) The division shall implement for the expanded categorical eligibility a countable asset limitation for resources that does not exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000). In determining whether an individual meets the resource requirement of this subsection, an individual's funeral and burial resources, including both revocable and irrevocable resources, may not be counted.(c) The division may adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 necessary to implement this section.(d) Before November 1, 2018, the division shall submit a report in an electronic format under IC 5-14-6 to the legislative council concerning the projected total amounts that individuals receiving SNAP benefits would be required to repay over the period beginning January 1, 2018, and ending December 31, 2019, due to positive errors, in which individuals are approved for an amount in error and then are required to repay the amount. The projected total amounts must be based on the amounts that individuals receiving SNAP benefits have been required to repay over the period beginning January 1, 2018, and ending September 30, 2018, due to positive errors.Added by P.L. 207-2017,SEC. 1, eff. 7/1/2017.