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• Title V of the Housing Act of 1949 (loans to elderly individuals, farmers, and developers for the construction, improvement, or replacement of farm homes and other buildings) • Section 101 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 (payments to certain mortgagors in behalf of tenants with low income who are displaced by government action, age 62 or over, physically handicapped, living in substandard housing, present or past tenants of dwellings damaged or destroyed by disaster, or the head of the household is on active duty with the armed forces.14 2835.20.00 RELOCATION ASSISTANCE ACT PAYMENTS Relocation assistance provided under Title II of the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 197015 is exempt for all Medicaid categories. 2835.25.00 DISASTER ASSISTANCE PAYMENTS Payments made under the Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act of 198816 are excluded for all AG Medicaid categories. There must be a Presidentially declared disaster for these payments to be excluded. 2835.30.00 FOSTER CARE, KINSHIP CARE AND ADOPTION ASSISTANCE PAYMENTS The following sections describe program specific policy on foster care and adoption assistance payments for children and adults received from any agency. 2835.30.05 FOSTER CARE PAYMENTS For non-MAGI (MED 1, 2, 4) AGs, foster care payments received by a foster care parent from any federal, state, or local foster care maintenance payments intended to provide for adults or children are exempt income. For non-MAGI (MED 1, 2, 4) AGs, Kinship care payments received by a relative of a foster care individual from any federal, state, or local foster care maintenance payments intended to provide for children are exempt income. For MAGI (MED 3) AGs, foster care payments received from any federal, state, or local foster care agency for the care of qualified foster individuals in the home are exempt from taxable income unless foster care is being provided for five individuals aged 19 or older. A qualified