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exclusion of per capita payments under the Indian Judgment Fund Act (judgment awards) of • $2,000 or less from income and resources. The exclusion applies to each payment made to each individual. Initial purchases made with exempt payments distributed between 1/1/82 and 1/12/83 are excluded from resources to the extent that excluded funds were used. P.L. 98-64 extended the exclusion to cover per capita payments from funds which are held in trust by the Secretary of Interior (trust fund distributions). • P.L. 93-531, Section 22 - Relocation assistance payments to members of the Navajo and Hopi Tribes are excluded from income and resources. • P.L. 94-114, Section 6 - Income derived from certain sub-marginal land held in trust for certain Indian tribes is excluded from income and resources. The tribes that may benefit are: • Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin • Blackfeet Tribe • Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma • Cheyenne River • Sioux Tribe Crow Creek Sioux Tribe • Lower Brule Sioux Tribe • Devils Lake Sioux Tribe • Fort Belknap Indian Community • Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes • Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians • Keweenaw Bay Indian Community • Minnesota Chippewa Tribe • Navajo Tribe • P.L. 94-189, Section 6, 12/31/75 - Funds distributed per capita to the Sac and Fox Indians or held in trust are excluded from income and resources. The funds are divided between members of the Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa. The judgments were awarded in Indian Claims Commission dockets numbered 219, 153, 135, 158, 231, 83, and 95. • P.L. 94-540 - Payments from the disposition of funds to the Grand River Band of Ottawa Indians are excluded from income and resources. • P.L. 95-433, Section 2 - Indian Claims Commission payments made pursuant to this Public Law to the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakima Indian Nation, and the Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation are excluded from income and resources. • P.L. 96-420, Section 9(c), 10/10/80, Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980 - Payments made to the Passamaquoddy Tribe, the Penobscot Nation, and the Houlton Band of Maliseet are excluded from income and resources. • P.L. 97-403 - Payments to the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewas, Arizona are excluded from income and resources. • P.L. 97-408 - Payments to the Blackfeet, Grosventre, and Assiniboine tribes, Montana, and the Papago, Arizona, are excluded from income and resources. • P.L. 98-123, Section 3, 10/13/83 - Funds distributed under this Act to members of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians are excluded from income and resources. Funds were awarded in docket number 15-72 of the United States Court of Claims.