Tracking# 2012-01067
FA/P 2/1/13, eff. 4/1/13 

I:/12120301.rtf 
(I:/12120301.doc) 

(10 CCR 2506-1)

[Instructions:  Insert before line 1514142.]
Revisions to Section B-4224 were final adoption following publication at the 2/1/2013 State Board meeting (Rule-making# 12-12-3-1), with an effective date of 4/1/2013. Statement of Basis and Purpose and specific statutory authority for these revisions were incorporate by reference into the rule. These materials are available for review by the public during normal working hours at the Colorado Department of Human Services, Office of Enterprise Partnerships, Division of Boards and Commissions, State Board Administration. 

*************

[Instructions:  Replace lines 2255358 through 2255363.]
B-4224  RESOURCE ELIGIBILITY STANDARDS [Rev. eff. 4/1/13]
A.  The food assistance office shall consider households eligible under either expanded or basic categorical eligibility to have satisfied the resource eligibility criteria of this section. For households eligible under basic categorical eligibility, the case shall be documented to show that all household members have been approved for and/or are receiving benefits from the program that confers basic categorical eligibility.
B.  Households not categorically eligible shall have their nonexempt resources, as anticipated to be available in the issuance month, used to determine household eligibility. The resources of non-household members shall not be counted as available to the household. However, the resources of a person who is excluded from household composition because of intentional program violation/fraud determination, failure to provide or acquire a Social Security Number or who is an ineligible non-citizen shall be counted, in their entirety, as household resources. The resources of a sponsor and spouse considered toward a non-citizen household shall be the sponsor's total resources less two thousand dollars ($2,000). (See the section entitled "Consideration of Sponsor's Income and Resources Toward the Sponsored Alien".)
C.  The maximum allowable value of resources shall apply to all households not categorically eligible.
As a result of the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008, effective October 1, 2011, adjustments to the food assistance resource limit will be subject to change annually according to the Consumer Price Index. There are currently two resource limits: one established for households that do contain a member who is elderly and/or is a person with a disability, and another established for households that do not contain a member who is elderly and/or is a person with a disability.
An elderly member is a member who is sixty (60) years of age or older. A disabled member is defined in Section B-4214.1, C, “Exemptions from the Boarding House and Institution Prohibitions”. Effective October 1, 2011, the resource limit for households that do contain a member who is elderly and/or is a person with a disability shall be three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars ($3,250). The resource limit for households that do not contain a member who is elderly and/or is a person with a disability shall be two thousand dollars ($2,000). 

***************