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INCOME TYPE DESCRIPTION
E-30038 Division of Welfare and Supportive Services TYPES OF EARNED AND UNEARNED INCOME Medical Assistance Manual
14 Mar 01 MTL 14/01 SUPPORTED LIVING ARRANGEMENT (SLA)
1. Unearned
2. Counted in Financial
3. Counted in Patient Liability
4. Non-Taxable Supported Living Arrangement (SLA) payments are funds authorized by state legislation to assist individuals with disabilities or mentally disabled SSI applicants/recipients so they can live in the community.
- exempt payments to or received on behalf of an SSI recipient, and - exempt payments for medical needs that are not paid by Medicaid.
Note: SLA vendor payments and reimbursements for receipted expenditures are not considered income. MH/MR may also refer to SLA as Supplemental Living Assistance; however, this is the same as Supported Living Arrangement. TANF/TRIBAL TANF
1.. Unearned
2. Excluded in Financial
3. Excluded in Patient Liability
4. Non-Taxable
Any cash and/or in-kind assistance provided by a governmental medical or social services program is not counted as income. TRIBAL GAMING INCOME
1. Count as unearned income
Conditional exclusion
2. Count in financial
3. Count in Patient Liability
4. Taxable
5. Exclude first $60 per calendar quarter
6. Exclude if does not exceed
$20 per month
Funds paid in a lump sum to an eligible tribal individual from tribal casino revenues. In month received, credited to individual’s account, or set aside for the individual’s use.
Beginning September 8, 2006, income is considered infrequent if received only once during a calendar quarter from a single source and the individual did not receive it in the month immediately preceding that month or in the month immediately subsequent to that month, regardless of whether or not these payments occur in different calendar quarter.
Between July 1, 2004 and September 7, 2006, infrequent income defined as income received no more than once in a calendar quarter from a single source.