(a) A household is not required to have a fixed residence in order to receive food benefits.  A homeless household is comprised of one or more homeless persons.  Homeless person means a person who lacks a fixed and regular night time residence or a person whose primary night time residence is a:

• (1) supervised shelter designed to provide temporary accommodations;
• (2) half-way house or similar institution that provides temporary residence for persons intended to be institutionalized;
• (3) temporary accommodation in the residence of another person of not more than 90 calendar days from the application date.  The 90-day time frame must be applied to each subsequent period of temporary accommodation as long as it differs in household and location; or
• (4) place not designed for, or ordinarily used, as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings such as a hallway, bus station, lobby, car, or similar places.

(b) All homeless households who incur or can expect to incur a shelter cost during the month are entitled to use the estimated homeless shelter deduction in the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (OKDHS) Appendix C-3, Maximum Food Benefit Allotments and Standards for Income and Deductions, to determine food benefit eligibility and benefit level.  This estimate covers all shelter costs described in OAC 340:50-7-31.  If the household's actual verified shelter cost exceeds the estimated amount, the larger amount is used.