16 Del. Admin. Code § 5000-5309
7 CFR 273.15(c)
This policy applies any time an applicant or recipient requests a hearing involving food benefits.
Within 60 days of receipt of a request for a fair hearing, the agency will conduct the hearing, reach a decision, and notify the household of the decision.
Staff will provide the additional benefits within 10 days of the receipt of the hearing decision.
However, the Division may take longer than 10 days if it elects to make the decision effective in the household's normal issuance cycle. That issuance must occur within 60 days from the date of the household's request for the hearing.
Staff will decrease benefits effective with the next scheduled issuance following receipt of the hearing decision.
The household may request and receive a postponement or continuance of the scheduled hearing. The hearing may not be postponed more than 30 days.
When a hearing is postponed the time limit for action on the decision is extended for as many days as the hearing is postponed. For example, if a hearing is postponed by the household for 10 days, notification of the hearing decision will be required within 70 days from the date of the original request for a hearing.
The agency may request that a hearing be rescheduled. The postponement is at the discretion of the hearing officer.
Any agency initiated postponement will not affect the time within which the decisions must be made and the household notified unless the hearing officer advises the agency and household to the contrary.
Unlike postponements initiated by the household, there is no extension of the 60 day timeframe when the rescheduling is at the request of the agency.
16 Del. Admin. Code § 5000-5309