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MS 5210 [4]
Tax refunds received are to be excluded as income for a period of 12 months after receipt.
12.Exclude earnings received by individuals 55 years of age or older under the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) as authorized by Title V of the Older Americans Act, P.L. 100-175.
Organizations that receive Title V funds are:
a. Experience Works; b. National Council on Aging; c. National Council of Senior Citizens; d. American Association of Retired Persons; e. U.S. Forest Service; f. National Association for Spanish Speaking Elderly; g. National Urban League; and h. National Council on Black Aging.
13.Payments received by United States (U.S.) citizens of Japanese ancestry, Japanese permanent resident aliens, or their survivors and Aleuts, under the Wartime Relocation of Civilians, P.L. 100-383.
14.Payments received from Agent Orange Compensation Exclusion Act, P.L. 101-201. These payments are issued by Aetna Life and Casualty to veterans or their survivors as lump sum payments and are retroactive to January 1, 1989.
P.L. 102-4, Agent Orange Act of 1991, authorized veterans' benefits for service-connected disabilities resulting from exposure to Agent Orange. These Veterans Administration (VA) payments are not excluded by law.
15.Attendant care and childcare payments made to a SNAP benefits household member from their own pocket and not from monies from an outside source. Such attendant care and childcare payments are not earned income because the money is exchanged between household members.
16.Childcare payments authorized by Service Agents through the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) if the provider is not in the SNAP benefits household. To determine the allowable dependent care deduction when childcare payments are issued by Service Agents, see MS 5450.
17.Exclude any portion of the KTAP grant that the household receives because a childcare expense is subtracted from earnings as part of the grant calculation process. To determine the countable KTAP income for KTAP cases with earnings and childcare expenses, see MS 5650.