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MINNESOTA STATE FOOD BENEFITS

ISSUE DATE: 03/2024

Minnesota provides state-funded food benefits to some non-citizens who are ineligible for the federal SNAP program:

MFIP participants who do not qualify for the federally-funded food portion of the MFIP grant due to non-citizenship status. The monthly amount of assistance is equal to the food portion the non-citizens would have been eligible for under MFIP if citizenship requirements were met.

Non-citizens, including U-Visa holders, who do not receive MFIP and who do not qualify for federally funded SNAP due to citizenship requirements, and who are age 50 or older. They must meet all other SNAP eligibility requirements, and unless exempt or deferred, are subject to work provisions as well as SNAP E&T participation requirements. The amount of state-funded benefits will be equal to the amount of benefits that would have been received under the federal SNAP program if citizenship requirements were met. This is known as the Minnesota Food Assistance Program (MFAP) and referred to in MAXIS as the State Food Amount. See 0011.03.27.06 (U-Visa Holders).

No additional application is required. Prorate benefits if a client is found eligible during the month.imageimageimage

PREVIOUS REVISIONS

DateNotes
06/2021 changes section title to Minnesota State Food Benefits. It also deletes the 2nd bullet because the same information is in the now 2nd bullet.
12/2014 updates FSET to SNAP E&T. No policy was changed.

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