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6. Income shown on the Leave and Earnings Statement (LES) for basic military pay, housing, and/or food. This includes Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH), Basic Allowance for Quarters (BAQ), Variable Housing Allowance (VHA), Basic Allowance for Subsistence (BAS) or Rations, Regular Sea Pay, Sea Duty Pay, or Career Sea Pay. The household is entitled to a shelter deduction for rental expenses.

However, any gain or benefit not in the form of money, e.g., free meals/housing furnished to military personnel, is in-kind income. On 1/1/98, the Armed Services began phasing in BAH to replace BAQ and VHA. BAH is paid as a single monthly amount for BAQ and VHA.

The mandatory salary reduction amount for military service personnel, which is used to fund the Government Issue (G.I.) Bill, is excluded.

Military personnel living in government-supplied, rent-free quarters, such as barracks, are not entitled to receive a BAQ. However, the Marine Corps shows an equivalent amount under "entitlements" and a similar amount under "deductions" on its LES. Depending on the Marine’s living situation, the BAQ income may or may not be countable in the SNAP case.

Disregard the BAQ as income and the corresponding deduction on the LES for Marine applicants living in government-supplied, rent-free quarters. BAQ income shown on the LES is considered countable earned income, and the rent is used to determine the household's shelter deduction.

Foreign Language Proficiency Pay (FLPP) and Special Duty Allowance (SDA) are countable income.

7. Earned income from members excluded from SNAP participation is handled as follows: a. Intentional Program Violation (IPV) disqualification, fleeing felons, disqualification for noncompliance with an Employment and Training (E&T) requirement, including Kentucky Works Program (KWP) sanctions or refusal to work register: Attribute all of the earnings to the household. Allow only one earned income deduction from the gross countable earned income, which includes the earned income of the excluded individual.

b. Social Security Number (SSN) Disqualification, Ineligible Able Bodied Adults Without Dependents (ABAWD), and Ineligible Aliens: A pro rata share of the countable income of the ineligible member is attributed to the remaining household members. The system automatically calculates the ineligible member’s countable income; however, to manually calculate the pro rata share to determine if the correct amount of benefits has been issued: 1) Allow exclusions, if any, from the ineligible member’s gross monthly income to arrive at the gross countable income. 2) Divide the countable income between the household members, including all ineligible members. 3) Subtract the shares of ineligible members from the countable gross income.