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Title 13: Social Service Resources Page 64 Iowa Department of Health and Human Services Employees’ Manual Chapter G: Child Care Assistance Determining Eligiblity Revised June 14, 2024 CCA Exit Program ▪ AmeriCorps: Count payments made to participants in AmeriCorps*USA (for participants 17 years and older) and AmeriCorps*NCCC (for participants 16 to 24 years of age) programs as follows: • Treat the living allowance (stipend) as earned income. • Do not count the child care allowance as income. • Exempt the educational award as income. • Exempt the unearned in-kind benefits of health insurance, reasonable accommodations, supplies and services made available for AmeriCorps participants who have disabilities as income. VISTA payments are unearned income, because participants are considered volunteers rather than employees. Title I VISTA volunteer payments are excluded as income as long as the director of ACTION determines that their total value is less than the federal or state minimum wage divided by the hours of service. To date, the director of ACTION has determined no VISTA payment to equal or exceed the minimum wage. When VISTA payments exceed the minimum wage limit, count the entire amount. ▪ Cash payments. ▪ Casino profits: Include income paid to Indian tribe members from profits of a casino. Prorate the income over the number of months for which the income is received. ▪ Child support: Include the periodic payments from an absent parent for the support of children, even if these payments are made through a state or local government office. ▪ Earnings, wages, or salary: Include the total money earnings a family member received from work performed as an employee, including wages, salary, Armed Forces pay, commissions, tips, piece-rate payments, cash bonuses earned, and sheltered workshop earnings. This is the amount before deductions are made for items such as taxes, bonds, pension, union dues, uniforms, and similar purposes. Include the total money earnings of a child who is over 14 years old, unless a full-time student. ▪ Dividends, interest on savings or bonds, income from estates or trusts: Include dividends from stock holdings or membership in associations, interest on savings or bonds, periodic receipts from estates or trust funds. ▪ Net rental income or royalties: Include receipts from boarders or lodgers and net royalties and net income from rental of a house, store, or other property to others. “Net rental income” is that income remaining after expenses such as taxes, interest, or borrowed principal to purchase property, insurance, and upkeep of the property.