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Title 7: SNAP Page 10 Iowa Department of Health and Human Services Employees’ Manual Chapter E: Income Types of Income Revised February 13, 2026 Energy Assistance Energy Assistance (Excluded) 7 CFR 273.9(c)(11) Exclude payments or allowances made under any federal law for providing energy assistance. Examples of excluded payments are:
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Low- Income Home Energy Assistance Program. The Affordable Heating Program is one of these. See Low- Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), even if the payment is received directly by the participant. The Farmers Home Administration (FmHA). Experience Works Income (Excluded) 7 CFR 273.9(c)(10) Exclude income received through the Experience Works program (formerly known as Green Thumb) that is funded in part through Title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965. (Experience Works program one of several program funded under this legislation. See Income Excluded by Federal Statute.) Family Investment Program (FIP) Payments (Unearned or Excluded) 7 CFR 273.2(j)(1)(iv) Count FIP payments as unearned income. If two FIP payments are received in one month because a holiday falls on the first of a month, count each payment for the month for which it is intended. If the household received FIP payments after the month for which they were intended, exclude them as a nonrecurring lump sum. (See Lump Sum (Nonrecurring).) Family-Life Home Payments (Excluded or Unearned) 7 CFR 273.9 When an adult who is receiving a family-life home payment, is not included in the SNAP household, exclude the family-life home payment. If an adult who is receiving a family-life home payment is included in the SNAP household, count the family-life home payment as unearned income. See 7-C, Household Composition: Family-Life Homes. Family Self- Sufficiency Grants (Excluded) 7 CFR 273.9(c)(5) Exclude PROMISE JOBS payments through Family Self-Sufficiency Grants as reimbursements for employment related expenses.