---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 1944.256"
title: "7"
number: "1944.256"
heading: "Eligibility for services."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/1944.256"
---

# §1944.256. Eligibility for services.

- (a) **Participants, other residents, and nonresidents.** Such individuals are eligible either to participate in CHSP or to receive CHSP services, if they qualify under section [802(e)(1)](/cfr/7/802.md?p=e-1), [(4)](/cfr/7/802.md?p=e-4) and [(5)](/cfr/7/802.md?p=e-5). Under this paragraph, temporarily disabled persons are also eligible.
- (b) **Economic need.** In providing services under CHSP, grantees shall give priority to very low income individuals, and shall consider their service needs in selecting program participants.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 61 FR 42943, 42949, Aug. 19, 1996, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 42 U.S.C. 1480.