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FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICES CERTIFICATION INCOME AND RESOURCES FNS 390 RESOURCES

15 Section 390 Change #02-2024 October 1, 2024 3. Count as a resource any of the EITC payments left at the end of the 12-month exclusion period. Use NCFAST to track the exclusionary period. Flag the case for review in the 11th month of exclusion. H. GI Bill funds set aside as a mandatory salary reduction for military personnel which is used to fund the Veteran's Educational Act of 1984. This can be verified by viewing the Leave and Earnings Statement (LES) of the military personnel. I. Resources of Battered Woman. 1. If the applicant resides in a shelter for battered spouses and children, exclude resources owned jointly with a former household member if the shelter resident's access to the value of the resource is dependent on the agreement of a joint owner who still resides in the former household. 2. A battered spouse’s shelter is a public or private non-profit residential facility that serves battered spouses and children. If the facility serves other individuals, a portion of the facility must be set aside on a long-term basis to serve only battered spouses and children. J. Property That Cannot Be Sold for a Significant Return. This resource is unlikely to produce any significant amount of funds for the support of the household if sold or disposed of. This can occur if the household’s interest is relatively slight or because the costs of selling the household’s interest would be relatively great. (The expected cost to sell the resource must be at least 50 percent or more of the applicable resource limit of the household and the full value of the resource is less than $3,000.) This does not apply to vehicles or financial instruments such as stocks, bonds or negotiables. K. Combined Funds. Do not count as a resource any excluded funds that are kept in a separate account. Exclude these funds when combined in an account with countable funds for six months from the date of commingling the funds. For example: Disaster-related funds deposited into the FNS unit’s savings account. The excluded resources of students and self-employed members which were prorated as income and are then commingled with countable funds retain their exclusion for the period of time over which they were prorated. After the exclusion period, all funds in the commingled account are counted as a resource.