• What are Food Stamps?
• Calculating Benefits
• Special Rules

• Who is Eligible?
• Getting the Benefits
• Underpaid | Overpaid

• Applying
• Keeping the Benefits
• Fraud Claims

• Income | Resources
• Work Rules
• Notices | Hearings

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Financial eligibility: “Income” and “resources”

What is “income”?

• 26.  Definition of “income”
• 26a. Things that are NOT income
• 27.  Money that counts even when the household does not get it as income
• 28.  How student aid is counted
• 29.  How self-employment income is counted and what business expenses can be deducted
• 30.  Money a boarder pays the household
• 31.  Income (and deductions) of ineligible immigrants in mixed food stamp households
• 32.  Income of an immigrant’s sponsor
• 33.  Child support payments made by a household member to someone not in the household
• 34.  Income limits
• (See also: How to calculate the monthly grant amount)

What are “resources”?

• 35.  Definition of “resources”
• 36.  How many resources a household can have
• 37.  Resource exclusions
• 38.  Vehicles don’t count for food stamps in California
• 39.  Selling or giving resources away

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