75-02-01.3-08 Disregarded income.

The following types of income must be disregarded in determining child care assistance eligibility and benefits. 1. Money payments made by the department in connection with foster care, subsidized guardianship, family subsidy, or the subsidized adoption program; 2. Temporary assistance for needy families benefits and support services payments; 3. Benefits received through the low-income home energy assistance program; 4. General assistance; 5. Irregular cash gifts received by a child care assistance unit; 6. A loan from any source that is subject to a written agreement requiring repayment by the child care assistance unit; 7. A child care assistance unit's income tax refunds and earned income credits; 8. Training allowances of up to thirty dollars per week provided to a child care assistance unit member through a tribal native employment works program; 9. Training stipends provided by private, charitable organizations to a child care assistance unit member who is a victim of domestic violence for the member of the child care assistance unit to attend educational programs; 10. The first two thousand dollars per year of lease payments deposited in an individual Indian monies account for a child care assistance unit member; 11. Any income required by federal law to be disregarded; 12. Earned income of all children in the child care assistance unit; 13. A one-time bonus incentive payment or commission to a child care assistance unit member; 14. Vendor payments or other payments made to a third party on behalf of the child care assistance unit; 15. Stipend payments to a child care assistance unit that do not require work as a condition of receipt; 16. Nonrecurring lump sum payments to a child care assistance unit; 17. Irregular income from sale of craft items and rummage sales; 18. Payments made by cafeteria or flex compensation plans to a child care assistance unit member; 19. Funds raised on behalf of the child care assistance unit, or any member of that unit, if the child care assistance unit does not have access to the funds; and 20. Income from contracts for deed. 5 History: Effective April 1, 2010; amended effective April 1, 2014; October 1, 2016. General Authority: NDCC 50-33-02 Law Implemented: NDCC 50-33-02