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Combined Manual

Combined Manual


GA ASSISTANCE STANDARDS

ISSUE DATE: 10/2024

MFIP, DWP, SNAP, MSA, GRH:
No provisions.


GA:
People who live in a licensed residential facility, receive Housing Support, or receive substance use disorder treatment services are eligible for the GA personal needs allowance. See 0020.24 (Personal Needs Allowance), 0013.15.12 (GA – Basis – Placement in a Facility), and 0013.15.54 (GA Basis – Drug/Alcohol Addiction).

Pay the personal needs allowance to the client or their authorized representative.

Residents of homeless or family violence shelters, and people with drug or alcohol addiction who live in the community and are not receiving substance use disorder treatment services, are eligible for the full GA basic needs standards. See 0013.15.54 (GA Basis – Drug/Alcohol Addiction).

All other GA recipients are eligible for the full GA basic needs standard:

ELIGIBLE PEOPLE

MONTHLY STANDARD

One adult living alone

$350

One adult living with parent(s) or an ineligible spouse

$350

Minor or emancipated child not living with parent, stepparent, or legal custodian

$350

Married couple with no children

$350 (each eligible unit member receives $350)

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PREVIOUS REVISIONS

DateNotes
12/2014 Removed WB.  This program was suspended 12/1/14.
09/2012 update Food Support and FS to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and FSET to SNAP E&T throughout. No policy was changed.

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