303.05 How to Verify Residence (FSM)

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Verify the individual’s New Hampshire residence using any document that reasonably establishes an address. Individuals do not need to have a fixed living address as long as their New Hampshire residency can be verified. Addresses such as post office boxes, rural route addresses, or general delivery addresses cannot establish New Hampshire residency.

Exception: A homeless household must not be denied SNAP benefits because residency cannot be verified.

An individual is considered to be homeless if they lack a fixed and regular nighttime residence or if their primary nighttime residence is:

·         a supervised shelter designed to provide temporary accommodations (such as a welfare hotel or congregate shelter);

·         a halfway house or similar institution that provides temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized;

·         a temporary accommodation for not more than 90 days in the residence of another individual; or

·         a place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings (a hallway, a bus station, a lobby, or similar places).

References: 7 CFR 271.2 (Definition of “Homeless Individual”); 7 CFR 273.2(f)(1)(vi); 7 CFR 273.3(a); 7 USC 2012(l)