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7. Flexible benefits offered to an employee in the form of credits, which are not legally obligated income to the employee, are excluded as income to the household.
C. Income Excluded by Law: Any income that is specifically excluded by Federal statute from consideration as income for the purpose of determining eligibility for the SNAP benefits. Examples include, but are not limited to:
1. Reimbursements from the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970 (P.L. 91-646, Sec. 216). The following payments are included under Title II of this Act:
a. Payments to persons displaced as a result of the acquisition of real property by an agency acting under the auspices of this Act; b. Relocation payments to a displaced homeowner toward the purchase of a replacement dwelling. Such payment may only be to a displaced owner who purchases and occupies a dwelling within one year following displacement; and c. Replacement housing payments to displaced persons not eligible for a homeowner's payment.
2. Payments received under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (P.L. 92- 203, Sec. 21 (a)).
3. Payments received under P.L. 92-531, Sec. 22, made to Navajo or Hopi Indians.
4. Payments received under the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA).
5. Exclude allowances, earnings, and payments to individuals in the following Title I Programs of the National and Community Service Act:
a. Serve-America; b. American Conservation and Youth Service Corps Act; c. National and Community Services Models Act; d. Higher Education Service and Learning Program; and e. AmeriCorps.
6. Exclude allowances, earnings, and payments to individuals in the following Title I Programs of the National and Community Service Act, only if that individual was receiving SNAP benefits or public assistance at the time they joined the Title I Program. Temporary interruptions in SNAP benefit participation do not change the exclusion once an initial determination is made:
a. VISTA; b. University Year for Action; and