See ACES Screens and Online Pages for an example of pages or screens used in this chapter.
D-SNAP is a special program implemented to allow a one-time basic food allotment in the event the Governor declares a state of emergency due to a federal, statewide, or localized disaster. See EAZ Manual- Emergency Assistance Programs Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
D-SNAP can only be issued when the disaster demographics are present in ACES.online parameters and the disaster mode shows A – Authorized. D-SNAP can only be issued to households not active on Basic Food, Washington Combined Application Program (WASHCAP), State Food Assistance Program (FAP), or Transitional Food Assistance (TFA).
The D-SNAP parameters can be viewed in ACES.online on the Disaster Details page. From the Welcome back page of ACES.online, under Other Links section, click Parameters. On the Parameters page, under Location section, click Disaster. To see other parameters for ACES Mainframe and Online, see ACES Manual - Parameters.
People who live or work within the disaster declared area and meet the criteria described in EAZ Manual Emergency Assistance Programs - Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
The following letters generate when a client is approved or denied from D-SNAP:
The following reports generate in Cypress for D-SNAP:
To screen for D-SNAP, see ACES Manual - How do I screen an application for a client?
If the household has no other Assistance Units (AUs) active and there are no adjustments necessary in the prior months, it is not necessary to go into each application month to process.
If there are existing active cases for this household in ACES, under Process Application Months, any months prior to the ongoing month display a hard edit.
NOTE: Clients currently active on Basic Food, State Food Assistance Program (FAP), Washington Combined Application Program (WASHCAP) or Transitional Food Assistance (TFA) may be eligible for food benefit replacement on their current Assistance Unit (AU). See ACES Manual - How do I replace Basic Food benefits lost in a natural disaster? During processing of replacement benefits, on the AU Details page, enter Existing Application (E) in the Disaster Cd field for the current month to indicate that the replacement is for an existing client.
To finalize an application, take the following steps:
An Assistance Unit (AU) can be manually denied when a client doesn't’t meet the eligibility criteria described in EAZ Manual Emergency Assistance Programs – Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
From the AU Details page, select one of the following Reason Codes in the Reason field for each client in the Clients section, or in the AU section.
The disaster denial reason codes are:
The Disaster Gross Income Standard is applied to each household. If the income for the household size exceeds the Disaster Gross Income Standard, the AU is denied with Reason Code 320 – Exceeds Gross Income Limit. See EAZ Manual – Standards–Basic Food for the Disaster Gross Income Standard.
For historical or ongoing months, the AU and client status will display Denied (D) with Reason 222 – Eligibility Not Established for the Month.
See ACES Screens and Online Pages for an example of pages or screens used in this chapter.