75-02-01.2-45 Excluded income.
1. The following income must be excluded in determining eligibility for assistance: a. All earned income of any child, except a minor parent, attending elementary or high school full time; b. A loan from any source that is subject to a written agreement requiring repayment by the recipient; c. The value of general assistance benefits provided in voucher form by any human service zone, tribe, or the bureau of Indian affairs; d. Assistance payments from other programs, agencies, or organizations that: (1) Do not serve the same purposes as the temporary assistance for needy families cash grant; or 33 (2) Provide goods or services that are not included in the standard of need; e. Scholarships, grants, stipends, and awards for educational purposes, which are given because of need or achievement by the bureau of Indian affairs, other federal sources, state sources, civic, fraternal, and alumni organizations, or relatives, to undergraduate-level and graduate-level students; f. Workstudy program income earned by an undergraduate-level or graduate-level student; g. Family subsidy program payments made by the department; h. Returned deposits from rentals and from utility companies; i. Adoption assistance and subsidized adoption payments; j. Foster care payments, subsidized guardianship payments, and payments received as a retainer for services as an emergency shelter foster home; k. Irregular cash gifts, which total, in any month, less than five hundred dollars per household received for a special occasion, such as Christmas, birthdays, or graduations; and l. Child support disbursed to the household by a child support agency. 2. For purposes of this section, "child" means an individual: a. Under age eighteen; or b. Age eighteen and a full-time student in elementary or high school, or in an equivalent level of vocational or technical training, if, before attaining age nineteen, such student may reasonably be expected to complete the high school or vocational training curriculum. History: Effective December 9, 1996; amended effective January 1, 2003; June 1, 2005; January 1, 2017; April 1, 2026. General Authority: NDCC 50-09-02, 50-09-25 Law Implemented: NDCC 50-09-02