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Title 8: Medicaid Page 36 Iowa Department of Health and Human Services Employees’ Manual Chapter E: Income Types of Non-MAGI-Related Income Revised April 11, 2025 Other Excluded Federal Payments

 Exclude Austrian Social Insurance payments based partly or completely on wage credits granted under paragraphs 500-506 of the Austrian General Social Insurance Act. Use the award letter to determine how to count the payments.

 Exclude Department of Defense (DOD) payments to certain persons captured and interned by North Vietnam as a result of participating in DOD operations (known as OPLAN 34A (or its predecessor) or OPLAN35). Do not exclude interest earned on unspent payments.

 Exclude Department of Defense (DOD) payments made to or on behalf of certain Vietnam veterans’ children, regardless of their age or marital status, for any disability resulting from spina bifida suffered by such children. Do not exclude interest earned on unspent payments.

 Exclude Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program payments made to former employees or their families. Beneficiaries will receive one or two lump-sum payments, which are excluded as income and as a resource.

Award letters sent to the recipient from the Department of Labor should verify the amount and source of the payments.

 Exclude German Reparations payments made to survivors of the Holocaust under the Federal Republic of Germany’s Law for Compensation of National Socialist Persecution, whether they are paid periodically or in a lump sum.

 Exclude Japanese-American and Aleutian restitution payments made by the U.S. Government to individual Japanese-Americans (or their survivors) and Aleuts who were interned or relocated during World War II.