Eligible couple

  1. Calculate eligible individual's countable resources AND
  2. If the eligible individual is a sponsored alien, carry out sponsor to alien deeming and add total deemed resources, if any, to the individual's total countable resources AND
  3. Total eligible spouse's countable resources AND
  4. If the eligible spouse is a sponsored alien, carry out sponsor to alien deeming and add total deemed resources, if any, to the spouse's total countable resources to determine the total countable resources for the alien spouse AND
  5. Combine the countable resources for the eligible individual and the eligible spouse