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Chapter: 1600 Assets Program: RAP 29 3. Disaster assistance payments (P.L. 100-707). This applies to federal disaster assistance and comparable state or local assistance.

4. Emergency payments made by another agency prior to the date direct assistance is received.

5. Any grant, loan, gift or scholarship received by the individual. Effective 7/1/93, this includes financial assistance provided under programs in Title IV of the Higher Education Act and under Bureau of Indian Affairs student assistance programs. Effective 7/1/93, student financial assistance for attendance costs under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act is also excluded. Attendance costs include: tuition and fees (as required by the institution of all students in the same course of study); and books, supplies, transportation, dependent care and miscellaneous personal expenses (as included in the assistance grant) for those attending on at least a half-time basis, as defined by the institution. Living expenses are not allowed as attendance costs unless the assistance grant includes funds for this purpose as part of miscellaneous personal expenses.

Funds derived from the following sources are not considered available income or assets, and it is not required that the source be verified or documented:

1. The employment related expense reimbursement received by a participant in employment & training.

2. Assistance payments received by households from the Low-income Home Energy Assistance Program administered by the Department of Community Affairs.

3. Any payment received by foster parents from any agency intended to provide for the needs of foster children or adults placed in their home; or adoption assistance payments for an individual whose needs are not included in the filing unit.

4. Income for children who are in the custody of the Department, which is collected by Fee Collections and placed into a Fee Collections trust account on behalf of a child, is not counted. The funds which remain in the Fee Collections trust account are not counted as an asset. The income and assets are considered unavailable and are excluded in the eligibility determination.

5. Other trust accounts belonging to the child, or on behalf of the child, must be evaluated by the eligibility specialist for consideration in the Medicaid eligibility determination. Follow trust policy contained in the ACCESS Florida Program Policy Manual, beginning with passage 1650.0573, for evaluation of the trust account.

6. The value of the benefits under the Food Stamp Act of 1977, as amended, the value of USDA donated foods, the value of supplemental food assistance received under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, as amended, and the special food service program for children under the National School Lunch Act.

7. Any benefits received under Title VII, Nutrition Program for the Elderly of the Older Americans Act of 1965, as amended.

8. Assistance provided under Title II of the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970.

9. Any funds distributed per capita to or held in trust for members of any Indian tribe under Public Laws 92-254, 93-134 or 94-540 and initial purchases made with funds distributed under Public Law 93-134 or Public Law 98-64.