1. (a) A household is not required to have a fixed residence in order to receive food benefits. A homeless household may include one or more homeless persons.

2. (b) Per 271.2 of Title 7 of the Code of Federal Regulations (7 C.F.R. § 271.2), homeless person means a person who lacks a fixed and regular nighttime residence or a person whose primary nighttime residence is a:

   1. (1) supervised shelter designed to provide temporary accommodations;
   2. (2) half-way house or similar institution providing temporary residence for persons intended to be institutionalized;
   3. (3) temporary accommodation in the residence of another person of not more than 90-calendar days from the application date. The worker applies the 90-calendar day time frame to each subsequent temporary accommodation in a different household and location; or
   4. (4) place not designed for, or ordinarily used, as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings, such as a hallway, bus station, lobby, car, or similar places.
3. (c) Per 7 C.F.R. § 273.2(f)(4)(v) and Oklahoma Administrative Code 340:50-7-31, when a homeless household incurs or expects to incur a shelter cost during the month, the household is eligible for the standard homeless shelter deduction, per Oklahoma Department of Human Services Appendix C-3, Maximum Food Benefit Allotments and Standards for Income and Deductions, or the excess shelter deduction, whichever results in the most food benefits for the household. Homeless shelter costs may include a monthly vehicle payment when the household lives in the vehicle, payments to friends or neighbors for sleeping accommodations, camping fees, or hotel or motel charges.

Amended at 9 Ok Reg 3405, eff 5-13-92

Amended at 14 Ok Reg 220, eff 10-1-96

Amended at 17 Ok Reg 473, eff 10-12-99

Amended at 26 Ok Reg 840, eff 6-1-09

Amended at 33 Ok Reg 1607, eff 9-15-16

Amended at 37 Ok Reg 122, eff 10-2-19 (emergency)

Amended at 37 Ok Reg 1836, eff 9-15-20

Amended at 43 Ok Reg, Number 6, effective 10-31-25 (emergency)