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When the household has the option of receiving the dividend as income or reinvesting in the trust, it is countable unearned income in the month it is available. UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION: Unemployment compensation payments are countable. Eligibility staff member accesses the MISTICS (Department of Labor and Industry) system to verify unemployment benefits. NOTE: The gross amount of the unemployment payment is countable before taxes or child support is deducted. The child support deduction is allowed when appropriate. UNIFORM RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Payments under the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970 are excluded. These payments include: 1. Payments to individuals displaced as a result of the acquisition of real property. 2. Relocation payments to a displaced homeowner toward the purchase of a replacement dwelling. The payment may only be to a displaced owner who purchases and occupies a dwelling within one year following displacement. 3. Replacement housing payments to a disabled person not eligible for a homeowner's payment as listed above; and, 4. Payments to U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry and resident Japanese aliens of up to $20,000 each and payments to certain eligible Aleuts of up to $12,000 each. VENDOR PAYMENTS: A payment made in money on behalf of a household is a vendor payment when an individual or organization outside of the household uses its own funds to make a direct payment to the household’s creditors or to a person or organization providing a service to the household. Most vendor payments are excluded. Payments made by a government agency to a childcare provider for a household member's childcare expenses are excluded as vendor payments. Some countable income exceptions are: 1. Money legally obligated or payable to the household but is diverted by the provider of the payment to a third party for a household expense. 2. Money deducted or diverted from a court-ordered support or spousal support payment to a third party for a household expense because the payment is taken from money owed to the household. 3. All or part of TANF or Tribal TANF usually provided in a money payment to the household but is diverted to a third party or a protective payee for purposes such as managing the household's expenses; or,