002.03(A)(ii) INCOME EXCLUDED BY FEDERAL STATUTES.

The following types of income are excluded by federal statute: (1) Income derived from land held in trust for certain Indian tribes; (2) Payments from designated Energy Assistance Programs; (3) Payments received under the AmeriCorps Program; (4) Payments received from the youth incentive entitlement pilot projects and the youth community conservation and improvement projects of 1978, but not payments from the Adult Conservation Corps (Public Law 95‑524); (5) Income derived from the disposition of funds to the Grand River Band of Ottawa Indians (Public Law 94‑540); (6) Payments received from the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act; (7) Payments received under the Alaska Native Claims Act including those to Nana Indians; (8) Payments by the Indian Claims Commission to the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakima Indian Nation or the Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation (Public Law 95‑433); (9) Payments to the Passamaquoddy Tribe and Penobscot Nation or any of their members received pursuant to the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980 (Public Law 96‑420, Section 5); (10) Reimbursements from the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policy Act of 1970; (11) Payments of relocation assistance to members of the Navajo and Hopi tribes; (12) Payments received under Title V of the Older Americans Act Amendments of 1987 including projects involving Experience Works, American Association of Retired Persons, United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, and Area Aging Agencies; (13) Per capita payments to Indian tribal members up to $2,000 per person per payment. Gambling operation payments are not considered per capita payments; (14) The portion of a military retirement payment which goes to an ex-spouse under a divorce decree property settlement; (15) Mandatory deductions from military pay for educational purposes while the individual is enlisted; (16) Payments made under the Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Amendments of 1988; (17) Payments to United States citizens of Japanese ancestry and resident Japanese aliens or their survivors and payments to eligible Aleuts per Public Law 100-383, Wartime Relocation of Civilians; (18) Payments to individuals due to their status as victims of Nazi persecution; (19) Per capita payments made under Public Law 98-124, distributions to the Assiniboine Tribe of the Fort Belknap Indian Community, Montana, and the Assiniboine Tribe of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana; (20) Per capita payments made to Chippewa’s of Mississippi under Public Law 99-377, August 8, 1986, and the payments made to the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians under Public Law 98- 123; (21) Payments made from the Agent Orange Settlement Fund, or any fund established by the settlement of the Agent Orange liability litigation under Public Law 101-201 and Public Law 101- 239; (a) Public Law 102-4, Agent Orange Act of 1991, authorized veteran’s benefits to some veterans with service-connected disabilities resulting from exposure to Agent Orange. These Veteran’s Administration payments are not excluded by law; (22) Veteran’s Administration annual adjustment in disability pension; (23) Earned Income Tax Credits and Advanced Earned Income Tax Credits; (24) Assistance to children under Public Law 89-642, Section 11(b) of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966; (25) Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits under Women, Infants, and Children Program demonstration projects, exchanged for food at farmers’ markets under Public Law 100- 435, Section 501; (26) Payments to specific Indian tribes; (27) Payments under Public Law 98-500, the Old Age Assistance Claims Settlement Act except for per capita shares in excess of $2,000; (28) Payments under Public Law 101-426, Section 6(h)(2), the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act of 1990; (29) Payments under Public Law 104-204 dated September 26, 1996, to any child of a Vietnam veteran who was born with spina bifida. The term “child” means a biological child of any age or marital status who was conceived after the date on which the veteran first served in the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam era; (30) Any income, regardless of the source, which is deposited in a Program to Achieve Self-Sufficiency account; (31) Payments received under Title II (Retired Senior Volunteer Program, Foster Grandparents, and Senior Companion Program) and Title III (Service Corps of Retired Executives and Active Corps of Executives) of the Domestic Volunteer Services Act of 1973 (Public Law 93-113, as amended). Payments under Title I, including Volunteers in Service to America, University Year for Action, and the Urban Crime Prevention Program to volunteers are excluded for those persons receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or public assistance at the time they joined the Title I program; (a) The exception is Households which were receiving an income exclusion for a Volunteers in Service to America or other Title I subsistence allowance at the time of conversion to the Food Stamp Act of 1977 continue to receive an income exclusion for Volunteers in Service to America for the length of their volunteer contract in effect at the time of conversion; (32) Subsidy received by a household through the Medicare Drug Discount Program under the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act; (33) Any education loans on which payment is deferred, grants, scholarships, fellowships, and veteran’s educational benefits and similar assistance; (34) Rent or mortgage payments made by Department of Housing and Urban Development or a state or local housing authority and payments for the purpose of providing energy assistance including utility reimbursements by Department of Housing and Urban Development or Farmers Home Administration; (35) Funds in Department of Housing and Urban Development Family Self-Sufficiency Program escrow accounts; and (36) Combat related military pay if the additional pay is the result of deployment to or service in a combat zone and was not received immediately prior to serving in a combat zone. This is authorized under United States Code, Title 37, Section 5.