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Title 7: SNAP Page 17 Iowa Department of Health and Human Services Employees’ Manual Chapter E: Income Types of Income Revised September 27, 2024 Indian Tribal Money Indian Tribal Money (Excluded, Unearned) Public Law 103-66 DPL 19-01 Att. 6 Exclude $2,000 per year from tribal dividend payments. EXCEPTION: Exclude all tribal dividend money deposited into a child’s trust. Some tribes distribute casino profits. Count these payments as unearned income in the month received. Do not apply the $2,000 exclusion. Some tribes distribute gas and oil revenues. Unless provided as a result of a court decision, this income is countable. Do not apply the $2,000 exclusion. Individual Development Accounts (IDA) Public Law 104-193 Public Law 105-285 Public Law 106-554 Exclude interest earned on IDA accounts. Also exclude any deposits made into the account by an outside source. An IDA is an optional, interest-bearing account much like an IRA (but it is not a pension plan). IDAs are established and managed by DHS-approved organizations. IDAs encourage clients to save for long-term goals without the savings affecting eligibility or benefit amount.

Any Iowan whose family income is below 200% of the federal poverty level and who lives in an area where there is an IDA project can open an IDA. IDAs are opened in financial institutions and are set up in an individual’s name. Ineligible Household Members’ Income See 7-I, Ineligible Household Members. In-Home Health- Care Payments (Earned and Excluded) 7 CFR 273.9(b)(1)(i), 273.9(c)(5) DPL 00-04 Att. 1 The in-home health-care assistance paid to the household member who receives the care is excluded from income as a reimbursement for medical care. See Reimbursements. When the in-home-health care assistance is paid to another person to provide the care, the money is considered earned income to that person. This is true whether the person is in the same SNAP household or not.

Usually, SNAP policy does not allow money paid to a member of the same household to be considered as earned income. This is an exception to that policy.