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EAP Policy Manual FFY24 Chapter 3 Program Eligibility Requirements Page 28 • Medicare/Medicaid. The value of medical expenses paid directly to a health care provider on behalf of the household. • Medicare deductions from Social Security. • Plan for Achieving Self Support (PASS) payments (funded through Social Security). • Payments from youth incentive entitlement, community conservation and improvement projects. • Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (P.L. 101-426). Payments made under this law. • Payments made by federal Service Providers under a presidential declaration of disaster including, but not limited to, individual family grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). • Post-Secondary Child Care Grant lump sum payments paid directly to client. • Aleut Restitution Act of 1988 (P.L. 100-383). Reparation payments to Aleut people and people of Japanese ancestry. • Reimbursements from the 1970 Uniform Relocation Assistance & Real Property Acquisition Policy Act. • Student grants to any undergraduate student made or insured through programs administered by the Commissioner of Education under Title V, Sec. 507 of the Higher Education Amendments of 1968 (P.L. 90-575). • Subsidized Housing. The value of any assistance paid with respect to a dwelling under the U.S. Housing Act of 1937, the National Housing Act, Section 101 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, or Title V of the Housing Act of 1949. • Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 (P.L. 105-220). Supportive services to participants. Supportive services include assistance that enables people to participate in the program, e.g., transportation, health care, child care, handicapped assistance, meals, temporary shelter, counseling, and other reasonable expenses or participation in the program. Exclude all WIA-supported income received by dependent household members who are 18 years old or younger or attending school K-12. • Veteran’s educational allowance. • WIC Benefits (P.L. 94-105). Benefits from Women, Infant and Children (WIC) nutrition program, Child Nutrition Act. • Women Vietnam Veterans’ Children with Certain Birth Defects (P.L. 106-419). Benefits for the children of female Vietnam veterans who suffer from certain birth defects must not be considered as income or resources in determining eligibility or benefits. Children receiving a benefit from the Veteran’s Administration because of a birth defect are likely receiving this benefit.