Persons residing in a household who cannot be considered household members are termed non-household members and are not considered in determining the household's eligibility or food benefit allotment.  Such non-household members include those described in this subsection.

• (1) Roomers.  Roomers are persons to whom the household furnishes lodging for compensation, but not meals.
• (2) Boarders.  Boarders are persons to whom the household furnishes lodging and meals and who pay a reasonable monthly payment for board.  Only the amount paid for board is evaluated to determine if the payment is a reasonable monthly amount.  A boarder whose arrangement is for more than two meals per day must pay an amount which equals or exceeds the amount of the maximum food benefit allotment for the appropriate size of the boarder household as shown on Oklahoma Department of Human Services (OKDHS) Appendix C-3, Maximum Food Benefit Allotments and Standards for Income and Deductions.  Boarders whose arrangements are for two meals or less per day must pay an amount which equals or exceeds two-thirds of the food benefit allotment for the appropriate size of the boarder household as shown on OKDHS Appendix C-3.  Boarder status cannot be extended to:
  • (A) parents who live with children, natural, adopted, or step regardless of age, unless at least one parent is elderly or disabled as defined in OAC 340:50-5-4;
  • (B) children under the age of 18 under the control of an adult household member.  Children placed in foster care or children placed in the home by the Developmental Disabilities Services Division (DDSD) may be considered boarders;  • 1
  • (C) a spouse, ceremonial or common law, of a household member;
  • (D) siblings, natural, adopted, half or step, unless at least one sibling is elderly or disabled as defined in OAC 340:50-5-4; and
  • (E) persons paying less than a reasonable monthly payment for meals as described in this paragraph.  Persons furnished both meals and lodging by a household but paying less than a reasonable monthly payment are considered members of the household which provides the meals and lodging.
• (3) Children in foster care or children placed by DDSD.  Children in foster care or children placed by DDSD with extended family care providers are considered boarders unless the household requests such persons be included as food benefit household members.  The foster care payments and the reimbursements for room and board paid by DDSD are considered as income to the children and, therefore, cannot be included as income to the household caring for the children even when the payments are made to the provider household.  The host household has the option to include the children as members of the food benefit household.  When the children are included as food benefit household members the entire foster care payment or reimbursement for room and board is counted as income to the household.  The income paid to the extended family care provider by DDSD for care rendered is counted as earned income to the provider.  • 1
• (4) Live-in attendants.  Live-in attendants are persons who reside in a household to provide medical, housekeeping, child care, or other similar services.
• (5) Students.  Students are persons enrolled in an institution of higher education who are ineligible because they fail to meet the eligibility criteria in OAC 340:50-5-45(a).
• (6) Others.  Others are persons who share living quarters with the household but who do not customarily purchase food or prepare meals with the household.