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

14. Payments received through the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (P.L. 101-426, Section 6(h)(2), 10/15/90). This law establishes a program to compensate individuals for injuries or deaths resulting from exposure to radiation from nuclear testing and uranium mining in Arizona, Nevada and Utah. 15. Payments received from the Federal Emergency Management Assistance (FEMA)under P.L. 93-288, Sec. 312 (d) as amended by P.L. 100-707, Section 105 (i) the Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Amendments of 1988. Funds distributed by FEMA due to a major disaster or emergency are excluded as income. Not all payments from FEMA are for disaster or emergency assistance. This exclusion applies to Federal assistance provided to persons directly affected and to comparable disaster assistance provided by states, local governments, and disaster assistance organizations. For payments to be excluded, the disaster or emergency must be declared by the President. 16. Disaster Unemployment Assistance paid under Public Law 100-707, the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, to any individual unemployed as a result of a major disaster. Individuals cannot be eligible for any other unemployment compensation and also receive disaster unemployment benefits. Payments are limited to 26 weeks. 17. Disaster Relief Employment funded through national emergency grants made available to States that have suffered an emergency or a major disaster as defined in Public Law 100-107, the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act. These grants provide funds that are expended through public and private organizations for temporary job creation in areas declared eligible for public assistance by FEMA, subject to the limitations of the WIA, section 173 (d). The employment will be on projects that provide food, clothing, shelter, and other humanitarian assistance for disaster victims, or projects that provide demolition, cleaning, repair, renovation and reconstruction etc. within the disaster area. Individuals are eligible to be offered disaster relief employment if he or she is a dislocated worker, has been unemployed for a long term, or is temporarily or permanently laid off as a result of the disaster. No individual can be employed for more than 6 months as the result of a single natural disaster. 18. Income amounts necessary for the fulfillment of a PASS (Plan for Achieving Self-Support) plan under Title XVI of the Social Security Act. Verification of the existence of the PASS and the amounts of resources and income set aside by the plan may be obtained from SSA. See SNAP 5413.2 for additional information about IDAs. 19. The value of assistance to children under P.L. 89-642, Section 11(b) of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 and P.L. 79-396, the National School Lunch Act. The Child