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b. Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) payments and WIOA on- the-job training income received by participants (regardless of age) in the Summer Youth Employment and Training Program and comparable summer youth employment and training programs under AmeriCorps. All other payments from WIOA's On-the-job Training Program (OJT) count as income unless they are received by dependents less than nineteen (19) years old; c. Payments under the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of l970; d. Women, Infants, and Children Program (WIC) vouchers; e. Special payments to Native Americans excluded by law, e.g., payments under the Maine Indian Land Claims Settlement Act; f. Federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is excluded whether received as advanced payment in weekly wages or received in one (1) sum after filing annual income tax return; g. Educational assistance authorized under Title IV of the Higher Education Act, including: i. Basic Educational Opportunity Grants (GEOG or PELL Grants); ii. Presidential Access Scholarships (Super PELL Grants); iii. Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants (SEOG); iv. State Student Incentives Grants (SSIG; Maine State Incentive Grant); v. Federal Direct Student Loan Program (FDSLP), formerly GSL and FFELP; vi. Federal Direct Supplemental Loan Program (provides loans to Students); vii. Federal Direct PLUS Program (provides loans to Parents); viii. Federal Direct Stafford Loan Program; ix. Federal Direct Unsubsidized Stafford Loan Program; x. Federal Consolidated Loan Program; xi. Federal Perkins Loan Program (direct loans to Students in institutions of higher education) (Perkins Loans, formerly NDSL);