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

• Assistance paid under P.L. 95-608, the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978. • Payments to the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation under the Grand Coulee Dam Settlement Act (P.L. 103-436). • Michigan Indian Claims Settlement Act which pertains to judgment funds of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan. 8. Under P.L. 99-576, Veterans Benefits and Health Care Authorization Act of 1986, any amount by which the basic pay of military service personnel is reduced to fund the G.I. Bill. Under U.S.C., Title 38 Sections 1411 (b) and 1412 (c), the amount by which the basic pay of an individual is reduced to fund the G.I. Bill will not be considered to have been received by or to be within the control of this individual.  NOTE: Section 216 of P.L. 99-576 authorizes stipends for participation in a study of Vietnam-era psychological problems. These payments are counted as unearned income.) 9. Cash donations, based on need, received from one or more private, nonprofit charitable organizations to the extent that such donations do not exceed $300 in a Federal fiscal year quarter as mandated by the Charitable Assistance and Food Bank Act of 1987 (P.L. 100‑232). 10. Payments made to Vietnam veterans under the Agent Orange Veteran Payment Program as authorized by P.L. 101‑201. P.L. 101-239, the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1989, Section 10405, excludes payments made from the Agent Orange Settlementfund or any other fund established pursuant to the settlement in the Agent Orange product liability litigation, M.D.L. No. 381 (E.D.N.Y.) EXCEPTION: Payments made to Vietnam Veterans under the Agent Orange Act of 1991, P.L. 102- 4, are not excluded as income. Veterans of the Vietnam War who are determined to be eligible for veterans’ benefits as a result of exposure to Agent Orange will be issued payments in accordance with P.L. 102-4. Refer to SNAP 5723 for additional information. 11. Under P.L. 104-102, Section 1805(d), monthly allowances paid to a child of a Vietnam Veteran for any disability resulting from spina bifida suffered by such child. 12. Under P.L. 106-419, Section 1815 (a), monthly allowances paid to any individual with one or more covered birth defects if he or she is a child of a woman Vietnamveteran. 13. Under the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 (P.L. 100-383),payments to U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry and permanent resident Japanese aliens or their survivors and Aleut residents of the Pribilof Islands and the Aleutian Islands, Islands West of Unimack Island.