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SNAP CERTIFICATION MANUAL – SECTION 4000 3B4400 Excluded Resources 16B4450 Resources Excluded by Law
4450 Resources Excluded by Law SNAP Manual 04/01/2024
The current list of resources excluded by Federal statute includes the following items: 1. As authorized by the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act (P.L. 99-425), the amount of home energy assistance payments or allowances provided directly to or on behalf of a household. 2. Benefits received from the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) under P.L. 92-443, Sec. 9 and P.L. 100-435, which amended Section 77(m)(7) of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966. 3. Reimbursement from the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970 (P.L. 91-646, Sec. 216). 4. Payments to Indian tribes as specified below: • Payments received by the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakima Indian Nation and the Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation from Indian Claims Commission as designated under P.L. 95-433, Sec. 2 • Payments to the Passamaquoddy Tribe and the Penobscot Nation or any of their members received pursuant to the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980 (P.L. 96- 420, Sec. 5); • Payments received from the disposition of funds to the Grand River Band of Ottawa Indians (P.L. 94-540); • Payments received under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (P.L. 92-203, Sec. 21(a) and Section 15 of P.L. 100-241, Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act Amendments of 1987 or the Sac and Fox Indian Claims Agreement (P.L.94-189); • Payments received by certain Indian tribal members under P.L. 94-114, Sec.6, regarding sub-marginal land held in trust by the United States. • Payments of relocation assistance to members of the Navajo and Hopi Tribes under P.L. 95-531. • Payments to the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewas, Arizona (P.L.97-403); • Payments to the Blackfeet, Grosventre, and Assiniboine tribes (Montana)and the Papago (Arizona) (P.L. 97-408); • Per capita and interest payments made to the Assiniboine Tribe of the Fort Belknap Indian Community and the Assiniboine Tribe of the Fort Beck Indian Reservation (Montana) (P.L. 98-124, Section 5); • Per capita and interest payments made to the Red Lake Band of Chippewas (P.L. 98- 123, Section 3, 10/13/83);