Unfortunately. due to an oversight in the 2002 bill. States are not allowed to apply simplified reporting to several categories of households. such as households with only elderly or disabled members. USDA wisely. through guidance and in its proposed regulation. allowed States to extend the option to some households that might be excluded. such as homeless households and migrant and seasonal farmworkers. This bill specifically allows these households to be included in simplified reporting and extends the State option to households with only elderly and disabled members. so long as States extend the simplified option for 1 year rather than 6 months for such households to reflect the fact that many of them live on fixed incomes and have stable living situations and thus do not have many changes to report. In fact imposing 6 month reports on these households would make them worse off by putting their food assistance at risk more often than is now the case.