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TRAINING INCOME 4.50 ALL Training income includes payments from WIA, TANF work program, Rehabilitation Services, and other programs such as the Youth Build Program and AmeriCorps. Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 4.50.1 ALL WIA (successor to the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs provide various training opportunities including: • classroom training, • vocational education, • on-the-job training, • work experience, • youth programs including the Summer Youth Employment and Training Program, • programs for dislocated workers, migrant farm workers, Native Americans, and veterans, and • Job Corps If an adult participant in an on-the-job training or work experience program receives wages, the wages should be counted as earned income (for treatment of children's earnings, see Section 4.8: Children's Earnings in this Chapter.) Training participants often also receive unearned income such as a training allowance. Exclude training allowances intended to defray participation-related expenses. Training Expense Allowances/Stipends 4.50.2 ALL A training expense allowance is defined as a payment to a trainee to reimburse them for expenses which they incur solely because of their participation in a countable work activity. These expenses usually include transportation costs, dependent care costs, uniforms, minor supplies, and so on. These payments are excluded. Work/Training Incentive Allowances 4.50.3 ALL These are training allowances from vocational and rehabilitative programs recognized by federal, state, or local government such as the work incentive program. MA These payments are excluded. TANF See MA. GC See MA. FS Count these allowances as earnings to the extent that they are not reimbursements or are not intended to defray participation expenses. TRUST FUNDS 4.51 ALL A trust is a right of property created by one or more persons for the benefit of themselves or another person(s). The grantor is the person(s) who creates the trust, and the beneficiary is the person(s) for whose benefit the trust is created. The trustee is the person(s) to whom the grantor transfers the trust. The trustee has legal title to the trust and is responsible for managing the trust for the benefit of the beneficiary.