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COMBINED MANUAL
ISSUE DATE 08/2017
WHEN NOT TO BUDGET INCOME IN RETRO. CASES
0022.06.03
EXCEPT for any income that is from a terminated source.
● The income is from a person who ceases to have financial responsibility for a unit member. Stop counting the income in the month after the month financial responsibility ends. See 0011.03.15 (Non-Citizens - LPR With Sponsors).
● The person is a unit member who gains separate unit status, and you remove the person from the unit. Stop counting the income in the 1st payment month the person gains separate unit status.
● A person joins a unit and you budget the person prospectively for the 1st 2 months, even though that person previously provided income to the household on an ongoing basis.
● The person is applying for cash assistance and received income in the SNAP budget month from a source that terminated before the payment month.
● The person is getting cash assistance and
- Received income in the budget month from a source which terminated before the payment month.
AND - The loss of income resulted in the client getting more cash assistance than the client would otherwise have received.
AND - The unit reported the change on the HRF, CAF, or Change Report Form in time for you to process this change for the cash assistance grant for the payment month.
GA: Do not retrospectively budget non-recurring income that does not continue into the corresponding payment month if you budgeted it in the prospective month.
Do not budget a person's income when:
● The person was a unit member or financially responsible person who left the home and whose needs you removed from the assistance standard. Stop counting the person's income the same month their needs are no longer considered. Continue to count the income of temporarily absent people. See 0014.09 (Assistance Units - Temporary Absence).
● The income is from a person who ceases to have financial responsibility for a unit member. Stop counting the income in the month after the month financial responsibility ends.