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time payment and excluded as income. These payments or allowances must be clearly identified as energy assistance by the legislative body authorizing the program or providing funds and must be approved as a legitimate provider of energy assistance based on existing criteria developed by the Food and Nutrition Service. An example of payments authorized in Kentucky is the Low- Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP).
Utility reimbursements that are provided by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Farmers Home Administration (FmHA), to households that receive housing assistance and are responsible for paying their utilities separately from their rent, are excluded income.
E. Public Assistance (PA) vendor payments (payments made by a third party on behalf of a household.
F. Exclude monies withheld or received from any income source not otherwise excluded, which are used to repay a prior overpayment from that same income source. Do not exclude monies withheld from assistance payments from other means-tested programs to recoup an overpayment from a household because of failure to comply with the other program's requirements. See MS 5220.
Non-compliance with another program’s policy does not apply to SSI. Exclude the recouped portion of SSI benefits as income.
Means-tested programs include SSI, KTAP, and publicly funded housing payments.
Since Social Security and Veterans benefits are not means-tested, exclude the recouped portion of these benefits as income.
G. Child support payments received by KTAP recipients, which must be sent to the Department of Child Support Services (DCSS) in the Department for Income Support.
H. Payments received as reimbursement for past or future expenses. The entire amount of the reimbursement is excluded. The following are examples of reimbursements:
1. Reimbursements or flat allowance for job or training related expenses such as travel, uniforms, and transportation to and from the job or training site, even if the reimbursements are provided in addition to wages. Reimbursements for the travel expenses of migrant workers are also excluded.
2. Reimbursements for out-of-pocket expenses of volunteers incurred in the course of their work.
3. The transportation allowance is provided to reimburse eligible Kentucky Works Program (KWP) participants for transportation and related expenses (e.g., gas, tolls, parking fees) incurred as a result of participation in KWP.