009.09 EXCLUDED INCOME.

The following are excluded forms of income: (A) Earnings of a child age 18 or younger and in school; (B) Indian Land Lease; (C) Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) rental and utility subsidies under Section 8 of the Housing Act, including lump sums or monthly payments; (D) $10 a month per individual for each of the following income types: (i) Declared cash winnings; (ii) Interest and dividends (may be prorated on a monthly basis); (iii) A gift that marks a special occasion; (iv) Small insignificant children’s cash allowances; (v) Income from securities and investments; and (vi) Interest on Series H savings bonds and other bonds which pay dividends or interest. (E) Home produce from garden, livestock, and poultry used by the household for their own consumption; (F) Income received from foster care payments; (G) Payments from Title I Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) for classroom training; (H) Earnings for a student received from the employer or compensation in lieu of wages under a Title I Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act program; (I) Title I Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act program allowance paid to the individual or vendor payments made to the provider for supportive services such as transportation, meals, special tools, and clothing. This includes temporary Welfare-to Work payments and work experience payments made through Workforce Development; (J) Any payment received under the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970; (K) Any student financial assistance; (L) A bona fide loan from any source; (M) Payments to an individual participating in training or school attendance subsidized by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation; (N) Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP); (O) The value of federally donated foods; (P) Indian judgment funds distributed as per capita payments to members of Indian tribes or held in trust by the Secretary of the Interior, interest and investment income accrued on Indian judgment funds while held in trust, and purchases made with the funds; (Q) Payments from the Nutrition Program for the Elderly (NPE); (R) Payments for services or reimbursement of expenses to volunteers serving as foster grandparents, senior health aides, or senior companions, Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE), Active Corps of Executives (ACE) and any other programs under Title II and III (Public Law 93-113); (S) Federal and state income tax refunds; (T) Payments to AmeriCorps volunteers; (U) For the first six months, the unspent portion of retroactive Retirement, Survivors Disability Insurance (RSDI) benefits (counted as a resource after six months); (V) Energy payments; (W) The value of assistance from a Child Nutrition Act or National School Lunch Program; (X) Earned Income Tax Credit (EIC); (Y) Advanced Earned Income Credit (AEIC); (Z) Income from Experience Works Senior Community Service employment and any other income received under Title V of the Older Americans Act; (AA) Agent Orange settlement payments; (BB) Payments made under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act; (CC) In-kind income received by Job Corps participants for food and shelter; (DD) Benefits under Public Law 104-204 for children of Vietnam veterans who were born with spina bifida; (EE) Payments made from any fund established as a result of the case of Susan Walker v. Bayer Corporation, et. al to hemophilia patients who are infected with human immunodeficiency virus; (FF) Payments to individuals due to their status as victims of Nazi persecution; (GG) Assistance received under a federal statute because of catastrophe declared to be a major disaster by the President of the United States and any interest earned on the assistance is excluded for nine months from the date of receipt. The initial nine-month period will be extended for a reasonable period up to an additional nine months when circumstances beyond the individual’s control prevent the individual from having the necessary repairs or replacement of damaged property completed; (HH) Short-term disability payments verified as being applied to medical bills; (II) Health insurance payments verified as being paid directly to recipient for the reimbursement to a vendor; and (JJ) Third Party Medical Payments paid directly to the individual that is refunded to the provider or the Department as reimbursement for a specified service.