603 Residence Effective Date - January 1, 2009

Child Care - ARW, Chapt. 1, Purchase of Service

SNAP - 7 CFR 273.3

POWER - W.S. 42-2-108; ARW, Chapt. 1, Section 5

Require each person who is applying for or receiving benefits to be a resident of Wyoming.

A. Consider a person a resident of Wyoming, who:

1. Is living in the state voluntarily with the intention of establishing a permanent residence;

2. Is living in the state voluntarily, i.e. homeless individual, migrant worker, student, and has not established any durational residency, for SNAP Program only; or

3. Is not living in the state for a temporary reason, i.e. only to attend school, etc., for POWER only; or

4. Is not in the state only for vacationing; or

5. Is receiving assistance in the Wyoming county of residence.

B. Recognize a lack of a permanent dwelling or lack of a fixed residence or home address may not act as a barrier to receipt of assistance as long as residence is met.

C. Find residence to continue until it is established elsewhere by the individual.

D. Allow no individual to participate as a member of more than one assistance unit or in more than one county/state in any month except:

1. For SNAP purposes under the following circumstances:

a. The individual is a resident of a shelter for battered women and children; and

b. The individual was a member of the assistance unit containing the abusive person.

E. Realize Wyoming residency is not a factor for Child Care for migrant farmworkers who meet the citizenship eligibility factor.

F. Consider residence not to be interrupted by a temporary absence for POWER if the POWER eligible is a child and meets the temporary absence criteria (see Section 610).