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payments are received due to changes in mailing cycles or pay dates or weekends or holidays, only count the monthly amount.

D. Student Income

1. A household member must be enrolled in one of the following types of educational programs to receive student educational income exclusions.

a. Recognized institution of post-secondary education;

b. School for the disabled;

c. Vocational or technical school;

d. High school;

e. General Educational Development (GED) program.

f. Accredited Home School Program.

Students attending high school do not have to meet the student criteria outlined in MS 2300 to receive these exclusions.

2. Student income

a. Educational Assistance Payments

Assistance payments such as educational loans with deferred repayments, grants, scholarships, federally funded work study income, fellowships with no work requirements, and VA educational benefits are excluded income and should be entered as excluded income.

b. Countable earned educational assistance is income funded by the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) grant, such as Ready-to-Work (RTW). Some regions have different names for this program, such as Work and Learn.

(1) Contact the RTW Coordinator to determine the number of hours the student is expected to work per week. The weekly hours must be verified and entered as anticipated hours per week.

(2) Enter RTW income based on the frequency at which it is received. For example, if an individual is paid every week, the wages are entered as weekly wages.

3. Tuition, books, mandatory fees and supplies, transportation in excess of KWP supportive service payments, and other miscellaneous personal expenses other than room and board are excluded from RTW income received by a household member.

4. Exclusions are applied to RTW earned income as follows:

a. Calculate the educational expenses that can be excluded.