2.5.3 Exempt Income

The following income is considered exempt income and is not included when determining gross annual family income: • Cash and non-cash benefits received through assistance programs such as TANF, SNAP, Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC); Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP); Medicaid/Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP); other free medical and dental care; free or subsidized housing; general assistance voucher payments, and donated commodities or food; • Social Security payments, including survivor’s benefits and Supplemental Security Income (SSI); • Worker’s compensation, short-term disability, and permanent disability payments; • Unemployment compensation or lump sum severance pay; • Child support payments received; • Gifts; • Loans and grants for scholarships that do not allow their use for living costs; • Income of others in the household who do not have financial responsibility for the child; • Tax refunds; • Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC); • Subsidized adoption and foster care payments; • Stipends (such as for work experience programs); • Supplemental payments to individuals from the Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund; • Earned income from verified employment in a child development facility licensed by OSSE; • Earned income from the operation of a child development home by an individual who is the holder of the license from OSSE; • Lump sum inheritance; • Litigation settlements or insurance payments; • Capital gains; • Assets under $1,000,000 such as real estate, stocks, and bonds; • Non-recurrent or inconsistent pay for overtime, incentives, bonuses, sickness, vacation, travel reimbursements, or other types of non-recurrent or inconsistent income that is not part of the family's base income; and • Any source of income not included in the above definition of countable income.