106 CMR, § 360.120 - Special Uses of SNAP Benefits
Certain households have been authorized to use their
(A)
Communal Dining.
(1)
Eligible Household
Members. Eligible household members 60 years of age or older or
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients and their spouses may use SNAP
benefits to buy meals prepared especially for them at communal dining
facilities authorized by the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) for that
purpose.
(2)
Communal
Dining Facilities. A communal dining facility is a public or
nonprofit private establishment, approved by FNS, that prepares and serves
meals for elderly persons, or for SSI recipients and their spouses. These
facilities include senior citizen centers, apartment buildings occupied
primarily by elderly persons and SSI recipients and their spouses, and
federally subsidized housing for the elderly at which meals are prepared for
and served to the residents.
(B)
Meals on Wheels.
(1)
Eligible Household
Members. Eligible household members 60 years of age or older or
members who are housebound or otherwise disabled to the extent that they are
unable to adequately prepare all their meals, and their spouses' meals, may use
all or part of the SNAP benefits to buy meals from a nonprofit meal delivery
service authorized by FNS.
(2)
Types of Services. Meal delivery service may be
provided by a political subdivision, a private nonprofit organization, or a
private establishment with which a State or local agency has contracted and
which is authorized by FNS.
(C)
Food Purchases for Residents
of Drug or Alcohol Treatment and Rehabilitation Centers. Members
of eligible households who are narcotic addicts or alcoholics and who regularly
participate in a drug or alcoholic treatment and rehabilitation program may use
SNAP benefits to purchase food provided for them during the course of such
programs by an organization or institution meeting the requirements of
106 CMR
365.610: Drug and Alcohol Treatment
Centers, if one of the following is true:
(1) the organization or institution is
authorized by FNS to redeem SNAP benefits through wholesalers;
(2) the organization or institution redeems
SNAP benefits at retail food stores as the authorized representative of
participating households; or
(3)
the organization or institution is authorized by FNS as a retailer.
(D)
Meal Purchases for
Residents of Group Living Arrangements. Eligible residents of
group living arrangement facilities who are blind or disabled as defined in
106 CMR
361.210: Elderly or Disabled
Individuals and acting on their own behalf may use SNAP benefits to
buy meals prepared and served at the facility especially for them, if:
(1) the facility is authorized by FNS to
transact SNAP benefits through wholesalers;
(2) the facility transacts SNAP benefits at
retail food stores as the authorized representative of participating
households; or
(3) the organization
or institution is authorized by FNS as a retailer.
(E)
Meal Purchases for Residents
of Shelters for Battered Individuals and Their Children. Residents
of shelters for battered individuals and their children, as defined in
106
CMR 365.550: Residents of Shelters
for Battered Women and Their Children, may use their SNAP benefits to
buy meals prepared by the shelter if:
(1) the
shelter is authorized by FNS to transact the SNAP benefits through
wholesalers;
(2) the shelter
transacts SNAP benefits at retail food stores as the authorized representative
of participating households; or
(3)
the organization or institution is authorized by FNS as a retailer.
(F)
Meals for Homeless
Households. Eligible households not living in permanent dwellings
or having no fixed mailing addresses may use all or part of the SNAP benefits
for meals prepared and served by a public or private nonprofit establishment
(e.g., homeless meal provider, soup kitchen, temporary
shelter) approved by an appropriate state or local agency to feed homeless
individuals and authorized by FNS as a retail food outlet.
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