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Chapter: 1600 Assets

Program: FS 13

7. Federal income tax returns, including refundable tax credits (EITC and Child Tax Credit) and over-withholding (tax refunds) are excluded as income and assets in the month of receipt and will continue to be excluded as an asset for 12 months from the date of receipt.

8. Educational assistance is not considered an asset. Excluded funds commingled in an account with other funds are excluded for six months from the date they were combined. Excluded funds kept in a separate account are excluded from assets for an unlimited amount of time.

9. Payments set aside as part of an SSI approved Plan for Achieving Self-Support (PASS) are excluded. These assets must be separated from other funds.

10. Monies paid as compensation to individuals or their heirs for compensation as a result of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (Public Law 101-426), effective October 15, 1990.

11. Assets of household members who receive SSI or TCA benefits and reside in a "mixed" food stamp household. (These members are considered categorically eligible on the factor of assets).

Note: A "mixed" food stamp household is a household containing some SSI or TCA members and other household members who do not receive SSI or TCA.

12. Reimbursements from the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policy Act (P.L. 91-646, Section 216).

13. Payments received as a result of the Wartime Relocation of Civilians [P.L. 100-383, Section 105(f)(2)]. This includes payments to U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry and permanent resident Japanese aliens or their survivors and Aleut residents of the Pribilof Islands and the Aleutian Islands West of Unimak Island.

14. Payments made to individuals because of their status as victims of Nazi persecution (P.L. 103-286).

15. Payments received under the Crime Victim Compensation Program that offers compensation to victims and survivors of victims of criminal violence, including drunk driving and domestic violence (P.L. 103-322).

16. Payments made to individuals under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program (EEOICP) Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-398).

17. Payments to American Indians:

a. Per capita and interest payments received by the Assiniboine Tribe of the Fort Belknap Indian Community and the Assiniboine Tribe of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation (Montana) (P.L. 98-124, Section 5).

b. Payments received by the Blackfeet, Grosventre, and Assiniboine tribes (Montana) and the Papago (Arizona) (P.L. 97-408).

c. Per capita and trust funds of the Chippewas of Lake Superior (certain reservations in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin) [P.L. 99-146, Section 6.(b)].