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(b) Except as provided in 7 AAC 45.515, if a household contains members who receive SSI or APA and other members who are included in an assistance unit, the department will treat each group of recipients as completely separate economic units, regardless of the relationships between those individuals. An individual may not receive ATAP benefits and either SSI or APA benefits for the same month. (c) Except as provided in 7 AAC 45.515, the total amount of income that, for the purposes of SSI or APA, is treated as belonging only to the recipient of SSI or APA, is not income for the purpose of calculating ATAP benefits. (d) A recipient or applicant shall notify the department within 10 days after a member of the applicant’s or recipient’s economic unit or assistance unit begins receiving SSI benefits. (e) If a stepparent, parent of a minor parent, disqualified alien parent, or alien’s sponsor, receives SSI benefits, the department will not consider the income of that individual to be available to the stepchild, minor parent, disqualified alien parent’s child, or sponsored alien. (Eff. 8/5/92, Register 123; am 7/1/97, Register 142; am 1/7/2005, Register 173) Statutory Authority: Authority: AS 47.05.010 AS 47.27.005 7 AAC 45.400. Child support income. (a) Except as provided in (c) of this section, a child support payment made in cash is considered to be income for the purpose of determining eligibility for ATAP benefits and for determining the amount of an ATAP payment when that child support payment is actually received by

(1) an applicant between the first day of the month in which the application for ATAP benefits is received by the department and the date that payment of benefits is authorized; or

(2) a recipient after the date that payment of ATAP benefits is authorized. (b) Except as provided in (c) of this section, once an individual has been authorized to receive an ATAP payment, any cash child support payment that is actually received by that individual or recipient must be turned over to the child support services agency. (c) A recipient may keep up to $50 of a child support payment that is received directly by the recipient after the date on which ATAP benefits are authorized by the department. If a recipient keeps more than $50 of the total amount of direct child support payments received in one month,