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SNAP CERTIFICATION MANUAL – SECTION 5000 5400 Income Exclusions 5405 (By) Federal Statute

• Per capita payments of $2,250 and less made under Public Law 98-64 funds held in trust by the Secretary of Interior. • Under 25 USCS 1408 (as amended by P.L. 93-134, P.L. 97-458 and P.L. 103-66, Section 13736, 10/7/93) interests of individual Indians in trust or restricted lands will not be considered a resource and up to $2,250 per calendar year of income received by Indians from such interests will be excluded as a resource and as income. Interests include the Indian’s right to or legal share of the trust or restricted lands. The exclusion applies to each individual Indian who has an interest. • Payments of relocation assistance to members of the Navajo and Hopi Tribes (Pub. L. 93-531). • 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 Red Lake Band of Chippewas (P.L. 98-123, Section 3, 10/13/83). • 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). • Payments to the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan (P.L. 99-346, Section 6 (b)(2)). • Per capita payments to the Chippewas of Mississippi (P.L. 99-377, Section 4 (b), 8/8/86). • Old Age Assistance Claims Settlement Act, provides that funds made to heirs of deceased Indians under this Act except for per capita shares in excess of $2,250 (P.L. 98-500, Section 8, 10/17/84). • Payments to the Puyallup Tribe of the State of Washington (P.L. 101-41, 6-21- 89). • Payments under the White Earth Reservation Land Settlement Act of 1985 to the White Earth Band of Chippewa Indians in Minnesota (P.L. 99-264). • Payments under the Seneca Nation Settlement Act of 1990 to members ofthe Seneca Nation (P.L. 101-503). • Funds appropriated in satisfaction of judgments awarded to the Seminole Indians in dockets 73, 151, and 73-A of the Indians Claims Commission. • Funds distributed or held in trust for members of the Chippewas of Lake Superior (P.L. 99-146).