002.02(B) UNEARNED INCOME.

Unearned income includes all the following: (i) Assistance payments from federal, federally aided or state funded public assistance programs such as Supplemental Security Income, State Disability Program, Assistance to the Aged, Blind, or Disabled Program, or Aid to Dependent Children Program; (ii) All or part of a public assistance or general assistance grant, including general assistance vendor payments for shelter when the household received no other assistance payments, that would normally be a money payment to the household, but which is diverted to a third party or a protective payee unless the vendor payment is specifically excluded. No portion of benefits provided under Title IV-A of the Social Security Act except for Transitional Child Care used as an adjustment for work-related or childcare expenses is considered excludable under this provision; (iii) Assistance payments from programs which require, as a condition of eligibility, the actual performance of work without compensation other than the assistance payments themselves; (iv) Governmental Grant payments; (1) Payments from grant programs such as Child and Family Services, Juvenile Court, Subsidized Guardianship, or similar governmental programs, meant for the temporary care of state wards or out of home placements - Households have the option to include or exclude the individuals. If the individuals are included the payment is counted; or (2) Payments from the grant program Subsidized Adoption. Households are required to include these children and their payments in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program budget. (v) State and local energy payments made directly to the household or as a vendor payment to the provider; (vi) Retirement benefits, veterans’ benefits, disability benefits, Retirement, Survivors and Disability Insurance benefits, strike benefits, workmen’s compensation, the gross amount of unemployment compensation, annuities, and pensions; (vii) Gross rental property income minus the cost of doing business if a household member is not actively engaged in managing the property for an average of at least 20 hours per week; (viii) Portions of reimbursements if both the following conditions are met; (1) The reimbursement exceeds the actual incurred expense it is intended to cover; and (2) The household or the provider of the reimbursement indicates that the reimbursement exceeds the expense; (ix) Alimony payments made directly to the ex-spouse or money deducted or diverted from a court-ordered support to a third party for a household expense; (x) Child support payments made directly to the household from non- household members. This includes: (1) All child support payments returned to the individual by the Child Support Payment Center; and (2) Money deducted or diverted from a court-ordered support payment or other binding written support agreement to a third party for a household expense; (xi) All other direct money payments which can be construed as a gain or benefit to the household, such as cash gifts which can be anticipated, credit card company gift cards which can be anticipated, dividends, interest, or royalties, are unearned income, regardless of source; (xii) The portion of charitable donations that exceed $300 in a federal fiscal quarter; (xiii) Two types of income from irrevocable trust funds as follows: (1) Monies withdrawn from the trust fund are considered unearned income in the month they are received unless they are otherwise excluded; and (2) Dividends which the household has the option of either receiving as income or reinvesting in the trust are considered unearned income in the month, they become available to the household unless the dividends are otherwise excluded; and (xiv) Fellowships, stipends, and assistantships without a work requirement.