8.1 AGE REQUIREMENTS

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1. There is no requirement regarding age for Food Stamp eligibility purposes.

2. There are other eligibility requirements in which age is a related factor. See Manual sections on Resources, Work Registration, Household Concept and Income.

3. At any time that a factor of eligibility is questionable, verification of the applicant’s/recipient’s statement is to be requested. Guides for acceptable age verification for Food Stamp purposes are:

a) Birth certificates or birth certificate information (This should be available on every child born in Tennessee after 1914.);

b) Delayed birth certificate;

c) Hospital birth records or records of the physician or mid-wife in attendance at the person’s birth;

d) Baptismal certificate;

e) School records which show the person’s age or date of birth;

f) Insurance policies which show the person’s age or date of birth;

g) Census Bureau Records; or

h) Unaltered family Bible records.

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