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EAP Policy Manual FFY24 Chapter 3 Program Eligibility Requirements Page 27 List of Excluded Income By law, the following cannot be considered income: • Agent Orange Settlement Payments (P.L. 101-201). Agent Orange settlement payments excluded from countable income and resources under federal means-tested programs. • Agriculture Nutrition Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1431). Value of federally donated food acquired through price support operations for school lunch or other distribution to needy people. • Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1780). The value of assistance to children under this Act. • Conveyance of Submarginal Lands to Indians (25 U.S.C. 5506). The value of land taken from and later added back to Indian reservations must not be considered income. • Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 (42 U.S.C. 5044). Income paid to participants. Title 1: Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), Americorps, University Year for Action (UYA), Urban Crime Prevention Program. Title II: Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), Foster Grandparent Program, Older Americans Community Service Program (Senior Health Aides, Senior Companions). Title III: Service Corps of Retired Executives. • Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C 2017). The value of benefits that may be provided under this Act, whether through coupons, access devices, or otherwise shall not be considered income or resources for any purpose under any Federal, State, or local laws. • Indian Judgment Funds Distribution Act (P.L. 93-134). Effective October 19, 1973, per capita distribution payments to members of Indian tribes who are due judgment funds, according to a plan of the Secretary of the Interior (or legislation, when a plan cannot be prepared or is not approved by the Congress) are excluded from income and resources. This does not include payments of funds distributed or held in trust (i.e., in the possession or care of a trustee) according to public laws enacted before October 19, 1973. • Indian Tribal Judgment Funds Use or Distribution Act (25 U.S.C. §§ 1401 - 1408). Interests of individual Indians in trust or restricted lands shall not be considered a resource, and up to $2,000 per year of income received by individual Indians that is derived from such interests shall not be considered income, in determining eligibility for assistance under any Federal or federally assisted program. • Job Related Expenses for Non Self-Employed Applicants should not be counted as income. • National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1760). The value of assistance to children under this Act. • Non-cash federal or state benefits. • Older Americans Volunteer Act of 1965 (P.L. 89–73). Income paid to participants in programs carried out under the Community Service Employment Program (Title V of the Older Americans Act), including Experience Works, Senior Health Aides, Senior Companions.