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INCOME

SSI-RELATED DISREGARDS

NATIVE AMERICAN PAYMENTS - Seneca Nation Settlement Act payments made by the State and Federal governments, under P.L. 101-503, to the Seneca Nation.

Distribution to Native Americans of funds appropriated in satisfaction of judgments of the Indian Claims Commission or the United States Court of Federal Claims. This includes up to $2,000 per year of income for interests of individual Native Americans in trust or restricted lands, from funds appropriated in satisfaction of the Indian Claims Commission or the United States Court of Federal Claims.

Alaskan Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) distributions - The following distributions from a native corporation formed pursuant to ANCSA are exempt as income or resources:

a. cash, to the extent that it does not, in the aggregate, exceed $2,000 per individual per year; b. stock; c. a partnership interest; d. land or an interest in land; and e. an interest in a settlement trust.

OTHER INCOME - Any other income that a Federal law or regulation requires to be disregarded.

OVERPAYMENTS - The amount of income that is withheld to recover a previous overpayment is not income if the individual received Medicaid at the time of the overpayment and the overpayment amount was included in determining the individual’s Medicaid eligibility.

PERSECUTION PAYMENTS - Benefits received by eligible Japanese-Americans, Aleuts, or Pribilof Islanders under the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, the Wartime Relocation of Civilians Law, and the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands Restitution Act.

Payments made to individuals because of their status as victims of Nazi persecution, including: German Reparation Payments; Austrian Reparation Payments made pursuant to sections 500- 506 of the Austrian General Social Insurance

(MRG)