(a) Department means the Department of Public Health and Social Services;

(b) Food means any food or food product for human consumption except alcoholic beverages and tobacco and shall include seeds and plants for use in gardens to produce food for the personal consumption for the eligible household;

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(c) Food coupons means any coupon, stamp or type of certificate used under the Federal Food Stamp Act of 1977;

(d) Food stamp program means a program under the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (since renamed the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by the Federal Food and Nutrition Act of 2008), which provides financial assistance intended to raise levels of nutrition among low- income households;

(e) SNAP benefits means the value of supplemental nutrition assistance provided to a household by means of an Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, or other means of provided assistance, as determined by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); and

(f) Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) means the federally grant funded, time limited program, to assist families with children when the parents or other responsible relatives cannot provide for the family’s basic needs pursuant to Subtitle B, Chapter II of 45 U.S.C.

SOURCE: GC § 9130. Subsection (d) amended and subsections (e), (f)
added by P.L. 37-024:5 (July 12, 2023).