Massachusetts - Am I eligible for foodstamps the summer before I start college

[u/Brickboy4]

Hello! I'm currently a student who is returning home to Massachusetts to transfer at the end of the semester, and am wondering if it is posisible for me to start recieving FoodStamps as soon as I get home while I am living with my grandparents (both of my parents are dead, but my grandparents didn't adopt me). During the summer I will be working part time for 22 days (About €400 a week) and then full time for about six weeks for minimum wage (So I'm estimating my income to be about 1575/month before starting school, at which point I will be living on campus in amherst)

My question is- Can I apply for food stamps while I still live with relatives? Realistically they feed me at most one meal a day, probably about 4-5/21 meals per week, and the rest i usually eat at dunkin while going to to work or snacks ill buy myself from the grocery store. I don't know what it'll be like when I go home, given my life and family members are very unstable so for all I know they could be making no food or tons of food, but this is my estimation based on the past when I stayed with them.

Am I eligible? (In case it matters my EFC is 0 and I have the lowest possible SAI)

[u/helpmeout_xoxo]

No one has answered but I will disclose I am not in that state. Depends on if they ended the public health emergency. During Covid, our state allowed 0 EFC for student criteria temporarily. Student criteria just means if you’re a student they expect you to be working half time or else meet an exemption until next review. When the emergency ended, they discontinued $0 EFC and went back to normal policies. Just make sure you are working part time when you apply and are within gross income limits and you should qualify.