9058 Types of Income Not Used for Food Stamp Purposes

[273.9(b)(5)] The term "income" does not include the following: 1. Monies withheld from earned income, or other income source, or monies received from any income source, which are voluntarily or involuntarily returned to repay a prior overpayment received from that income source, provided that the overpayment was not excludable under DSSM 9059. However, monies withheld from assistance from another program as specified in DSSM 9082, for purposes of recouping from a household an overpayment which resulted from the household's failure to comply with the other program's requirements will be included as income. Overpayment amounts being recouped from Unemployment Compensation or Social Security checks to pay back DOL or SSA are not counted as income for food stamp purposes, even if the overpayment was the client's fault. Child support payments received by TANF recipients which must be transferred to the Division of Child Support Enforcement to maintain TANF eligibility. When an TANF recipient fails to turn over support payments to the Division of Child Support Enforcement, DSS does not process a claim. DCSE is responsible for processing the claim for the support payments their agency did not receive.