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26.Payments received from SSA and directly deposited into an "SSI dedicated account", for eligible individuals under age 18, according to Section 213 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. However, consider interest earned by the account as income.

27.Benefits for individuals with covered birth defects who are the natural children of women veterans who served in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. There is no age limit for recipients of these benefits. These individuals receive the benefits until they die.

28.Income maintained in or withdrawn from an Individual Development Account (IDA), including interest earned, as long as the recipient is receiving Kentucky Transitional Assistance Program (KTAP).

An IDA is a savings account established at an approved financial institution, matched by funds from a non-profit organization participating in the Assets for Independence Act (AFIA). There are currently two IDA granters under the AFIA demonstration project in Kentucky: The Center for Women and Families, in Louisville, KY, and Kentucky River Foothills Development Council, Inc., in Richmond, KY.

29.Family Assistance Short-Term Program (FAST) payments.

30.Work Incentive Reimbursement (WIN) payments.

31.Military Income Payments under the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2005, received by military personnel while deployed to a combat zone. To determine excludable income in a SNAP household, use the following steps to process military pay:

a. Establish the amount of the military person’s pay that was actually available to the household prior to the deployment of the military person to a designated combat zone as identified in item f. (1) If the military person was part of the SNAP benefits household prior to deployment, the amount would be the net military pay. For SNAP budgeting purposes, gross pay was counted; however, only the net pay was actually made available to the household. Therefore, once deployed, continue to consider the net pay as available to the household unless otherwise reported and verified. (2) If the military person was not part of the household prior to the military person’s deployment to a designated combat zone, for SNAP benefits purposes, this amount is the amount the absent military person actually made available to the family prior to deployment to the designated combat zone. b. Determine the amount of military pay that the absent member deployed in a designated combat zone is making available to the family. c. If the amount of the military pay that the absent member deployed in a designated combat zone is making available is equal to or less than the amount the household was receiving from the military person prior