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MISSISSIPPI DIVISION OF MEDICAID Eligibility Policy and Procedures Manual CHAPTER 200A – Income: ABD Categories Page |94 Effective Month: July 2025 200A.08 CHART OF OTHER UNEARNED INCOME EXCLUSIONS The following chart describes other unearned income exclusions and their treatment: UNEARNED INCOME EXCLUSION Agent Orange Settlement Payments Payments made in connection with the Agent Orange Product Liability Litigation settlement fund Payments from Agent Orange settlement fund or any other fund established pursuant to the settlement in the Agent Orange liability litigation are excluded from both income and resources. Effective July 2004, interest earned by conserved Agent Orange settlement payments is excluded income. Austrian Social insurance Payments The nationwide class action lawsuit, Bondy v. Sullivan, involved Austrian social insurance payments based, in whole or in part, on wage credits under Paragraphs 500-506 of the Austrian General Social Insurance Act, which grant credits to person who suffered a loss (imprisoned, unemployed, forced to flee Austria from March 1933 to May 1945 for political, religious or ethnic reasons. Credits authorized under paragraphs 500-506 of the Austrian General Social Insurance Act are excluded as income. Effective July 2004, interest earned on Austrian social insurance payments retained is excluded from income. Austrian social insurance payments Not based on Paragraphs 500-506 are counted as income. Child Care Payments Under the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act (CCDBGA) Payments to low-income families or to children with special needs for certain childcare activities, such as early childhood development, before and after school services and services designed to permit a parent to continue working. Payments to a child’s family under the CCDBGA are not counted as income. There are no specific resource exclusions for payments made under CCDBGA. Other types of childcare payments are subject to general policy pertaining to income and income exclusions. NOTE: Payments the child’s family makes to the childcare provider using the funds is income to the provider.