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person was making available to the SNAP household prior to deployment is counted as unearned income. 2. Then determine the amount of military pay that the deployed absent military member is making available to the SNAP household. 3. Then identify what portion of the combat-related pay is available to the household. That portion must be excluded from the household's income for SNAP eligibility determinations. To document the deployed person's income and location, the person's Leave and Earnings Statement (LES) will identify combat pay if it is being received and can be used to establish deployment to a combat zone and the amount of combat pay. Deployment to a combat zone can also be established through orders issued to the military person. Some households may have access to the information via the web. If there are questions about the LES or orders provided by the absent member, contact the service member's supporting finance office or DFAS at DFAS.lndianapolis-IN.JFL.mbx.dfas-in- systems@mail.mil. COMMUNITY SERVICES ADMINISTRATION: Payments from the Crisis Intervention Program (CIP) administered by the Community Services Administration (CSA) are excluded. CONTRACT FOR DEED: If a contract for deed is excluded as a resource, the payments received from that contract for deed are countable unearned income. The costs of doing business are deducted from the gross income to arrive at the countable net income. The income is countable over the period it is intended to cover. NOTE: Allowable business expenses for the cost of doing business include: payments on the principal of the purchase price of income producing real estate and capital assets, equipment, machinery, and other durable goods; interest paid to purchase income producing property; insurance premiums; escrow fees; and, taxes paid on income producing property (SNAP 503-1 Self Employment). Both the interest earned and the portion of the payment for the principal is countable income after the allowable costs of doing business when the contract for deed is an excluded resource. If the contract for deed is a countable resource, only the interest payment minus cost of doing business is counted as income. CONTRIBUTIONS: Contributions that can be anticipated to be received from an outside source and cannot be excluded as a nonrecurring lump sum, loan, or irregular/infrequent income are countable unearned income to the household. Note: In situations where a client has a joint checking or savings account with a person from outside of the SNAP household,