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CODE OF COLORADO REGULATIONS 8 CCR 1403-1 Colorado Child Care Assistance Program

24 4) Incidental receipts from the sale of wood, sand, gravel, and similar items. b. Operating expenses include, but are not limited to: 1) Cost of feed, fertilizer, seed, and other farming supplies; 2) Cash wages paid to farmhands; 3) Cash rent; 4) Interest on farm mortgages; 5) Farm building repairs; 6) Farm taxes (not state and federal income taxes); and 7) Similar expenses. c. The value of fuel, food, or other farm products used for family living is not included as part of net income. If child care is provided for an employment activity, then taxable gross wages divided by the number of hours worked shall equal at least the current federal minimum wage. To determine a valid monthly income, taxable gross income may be averaged for a period of up to twelve (12) months. For all other cases where receipt of income is reasonably certain but the monthly amount is expected to fluctuate, a period of up to twelve (12) months shall be used to arrive at an average monthly amount. 4. An in-kind benefit is any gain or benefit received by the adult caretaker(s) or teen parent(s) as compensation for employment, which is not in the form of money such as meals, clothing, public housing or produce from a garden. A dollar amount must be established for this benefit and it must be counted as other income. The dollar amount is based on the cost or fair market value. 5. Vendor payments are money payments that are not payable directly to an adult caretaker or teen parent but are paid to a third party for a household expense and are countable when the person or organization making the payment on behalf of a household is using funds that otherwise would need to be paid to the adult caretaker(s) or teen parent(s) and are part of the compensation for employment. 6. Railroad retirement insurance 7. Veterans Payments a. Retirement or pension payments paid by defense finance and accounting services (DFAS) to retired members of the Armed Forces; b. Pension payments paid by the Veteran’s Administration to disabled members of the Armed Forces or to survivors of deceased veterans; c. Subsistence allowances paid to veterans through the GI bill. For education and on-the-job training; and d. “Refunds” paid to veterans as GI insurance premiums.