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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".41" citation="COMAR 07.03.17.41" title_num="07" subtitle_num="03" chapter_num="17" heading="Failure to Comply with Another Assistance Program's Requirements.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>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.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>The local department shall adjust Program benefits when:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>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</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Changes are reported that are not related to a penalty imposed by another federal, State, or local means-tested public assistance program.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>