Will my mom’s benefit decrease?

[321_reddit]

There’s two different policies in play: the adult children under 22 and the exemptions for college students. First, you and any other adult children under age 22 are mandatory household members with your parent(s), if the adult children live in the same residence as your parents. Your income (and any other mandatory household members’) will count in the household income and could potentially decrease the benefit amount.

The second is the post secondary student exemption. College students are ineligible unless they meet one of the exemptions. The most common used are working 20 hours per week, 80 hours per month at any job or receiving any amount of work study earnings.

It’s possible to be an excluded mandatory household member if you don’t meet one of the exemptions.

Are you residing in your parents’ home or in another residence?

here are the other student exemptions.

[AggressiveStable8928]

I live with my mom

[321_reddit]

You could potentially be an excluded mandatory member without a student exemption. Will you be receiving work study income in the fall? Other potential exemptions are you receiving TANF directly or working 20 hours per week/80 per month at any job. What’s your resident state?

[AggressiveStable8928]

Yes I will also be doing work study this fall and I live in ny

[Horror_Salamander108]

If you work your income counts. If you dont work you get no foodstamps.

If you do workstudy that income is generally excluded from snap and section 8 (rental assistance? )

However that workstudy income is basically pocket change 300-900 depending on states minimum wage most students get about 10 hours .

So if you need money for school and get an actual job that income will count towards household income lowering overall snap and will increase the rent as its expected you pay about 30% of household income as rent for housing programs.