Oklahoma § 56-241.3 - Limitation of benefits - Amount and receipt of
Full text of Oklahoma Oklahoma Statutes § 56-241.3 — Limitation of benefits - Amount and receipt of, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 56-241.3. Limitation of benefits - Amount and receipt of
allotments.
A. Except as otherwise provided by law or waiver, all ablebodied recipients eighteen (18) years of age to fifty (50) years of
age, who are not disabled or raising minor children, may receive
food stamps for only three (3) months in each thirty-six-month
period except in months in which such recipients are employed for at
least twenty (20) or more hours per week. The Department of Human
Services shall enforce the provisions of this section and any
approved waivers or other provisions pursuant to law in effect for
this state as of the effective date of this act in designated areas
and populations.
B. 1. A family applying for food stamps after the fifteenth
(15th) day of each month shall be eligible to receive the total
amount of their initial allotment and their regular first allotment.
2. A household allotment of food stamps may be reduced by up to
twenty-five percent (25%) if a family is sanctioned in another
program established pursuant to the Statewide Temporary Assistance
Responsibility System.
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 56. Poor Persons
3. An individual in a treatment center shall designate the
treatment center as the recipient of such individual's food stamp
allotment.
4. Operating procedures for the food stamp programs in local
offices may vary to reflect local differences.
5. The Department is authorized to use the amount of a
household food stamp allotment to subsidize a job under a work
supplementation or support program.
C. Beginning October 1, 2013, the Department of Human Services
shall not request a waiver to provide Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program services to able-bodied adults without
dependents.
Added by Laws 1997, c. 414, § 23, eff. July 1, 1997. Amended by
Laws 2013, c. 178, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2013.
Source: official Oklahoma text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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