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Chapter: 1800 Income Program: FS 17 1810.0914 Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program (FS) Payments made to individuals under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program (EEOICP) Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-398) are excluded as income. 1810.0915 Domestic Volunteer Services Act (FS) The following payments to volunteers under Title II, the Domestic Volunteer Services Act of 1973 (Public Law 93-113), as amended, are excluded as income:

1. Payments under Title I of the act (including payments from such Title I Programs as VISTA or AmeriCorps VISTA, University Year for Action, and Urban Crime Prevention Program) to volunteers are excluded for those households receiving food stamps at the time they joined the Title I Program. Verification of participation in the Food Stamp Program at the time the individual joined VISTA is mandatory.

Exception: Applicants who were not receiving food stamps at the time they joined VISTA will have these volunteer payments included as earned income.

2. Payments under Title II such as RSVP, and Foster Grandparents and Senior Companion Program. 1810.0916 Older Americans Act (FS) Under the Older Americans Act, Title V is the Community Service Employment Program. The organizations involved in this program are:

1. Experience Works, 2. National Council on Aging, 3. National Council on Senior Citizens, 4. American Association of Retired Persons, 5. U.S. Forestry Services, 6. National Association of Spanish Speaking Elderly, 7. National Urban League, and 8. National Council on Black Aging.

Funds received under the Community Service Employment Program must be excluded as income. 1810.0917 Indian Tribe/Alaskan Native (FS) The following income exclusions apply for Indian tribes and Alaskan natives (refer to Chapter 1600 for applicable asset exclusions):

1. Payments received under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (P.L. 92-203, Section 29 and P.L. 100-241),

2. Per capita and interest payments to the Fort Belknap Assiniboine Tribe (Montana) and the Fort Peck Assiniboine Tribe (Montana) (P.L. 98-124, Section 5),

3. Payments to the Blackfeet, Grosventre and Assiniboine Tribes (Montana) and Papago (Arizona) (P.L. 97-408),

4. Payments to the Chippewas of Lake Superior (certain reservations in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin) [P.L. 99-146, Section 6(b)],

5. Payments to the Chippewas of the Mississippi [P.L. 99-377, Section 4(b)],

6. Payments to the Red Lake Band of Chippewas (P.L. 98-123, Section 3),