# COMAR Title 07 — Department of Human Services

## Subtitle 03 — Family Investment Administration

### Chapter 17 — Food Supplement Program

#### Regulation .41 Failure to Comply with Another Assistance Program's Requirements.

*COMAR 07.03.17.41*

A. The local department may not increase a household's allotment during the period the household's benefits received under another means-tested federal, State, or local public assistance program have been reduced, suspended, or terminated due to the household's failure to comply with a requirement of the program that imposed the benefit decrease.

B. The local department shall adjust Program benefits when:

  (1) Eligible members are added to the FSP household, regardless of any prohibition from receiving benefits for the additional member under another federal, State, or local public assistance means-tested program; or

  (2) Changes are reported that are not related to a penalty imposed by another federal, State, or local means-tested public assistance program.