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TANF TANF TANF TANF TANF TANF TANF TANF SNAP SNAP SNAP SNAP SNAP SNAP SNAP SNAP If the school will not provide a budget for cost of attendance, or the student claims their educational expenses will exceed the amounts on the budget, allow the costs of attendance designated by the student. If an expense claimed by the student is questionable, allow it only after it is verified. Prepaid educational costs or monthly payments for individuals to use in future years are not allowable deductions. 733.2.1 Step-by-Step Procedures (toc) When a household receives educational assistance from more than one source, determine if each source is exempt or budgetable. Use the following steps to deduct allowable expenses from budgetable educational income. 1. Determine the total of all nonexempt educational assistance. 2. Total the allowable educational expenses and subtract them from Step 1. Do not subtract room and board expenses. Note: Ensure any amounts designated by the student include expenses for the same period of time covered by the educational assistance. If the student receives work study income, go to Step 3. Otherwise, go to Step 4. 3. Determine countable work study income (other than Title IV). a. Subtract from work study income any amount of allowable expenses that exceed assistance totaled in Step 1, if any, and b. Deduct 20% of any countable work study income remaining from Step 3(a). NOTE: Do not count Title IV work study assistance as SNAP income 4. Count any remaining educational assistance from Step 2 and/or Step 3 and average the income over the period the money is intended to cover to determine the monthly income from these sources. 5. Add countable monthly amounts of any cash prizes, gifts, or awards from parents, guardians, or any other non-household member for the student's support. 6. Determine the household's eligibility and benefits as in any other case, considering all other income the student or other household members received. When educational assistance that could not be anticipated is received after the school term or semester has begun, prorate the income, after exclusions, over the period it is intended to cover. Include it as income only for the remainder of the term. Example: If an unanticipated scholarship is received in November, prorate the scholarship to cover the entire semester (September — December). Count the prorated amount as income for only two months (November and December). Count any other financial assistance as a contribution in the month received. A-733.2 INCOME Division of Social Services Eligibility and Payments Manual 26 Jun 26 MTL 09/26 Budgeting-Determining Educational Assistance and Expenses