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INCOME

LIF DISREGARDS

CASH ASSISTANCE INCOME - Any income of a cash assistance recipient in the A/R’s household. However, any room/board such cash assistance recipient may pay to a LIF A/R is countable;

CHILD CARE INCOME - Five dollars a day per child for a homemaker providing family day care for children other than his/her own is disregarded from the total amount of childcare payments received;

CHILDCARE SERVICES PAYMENTS - Payments made to the A/R for childcare services or the value of any childcare services provided by the A/R to a recipient of employment-related and JOBS-related childcare services. Transitional child care services, at-risk low income child care services or child care and development block grant services;

CHILDCARE/INCAPACITATED ADULT CARE COSTS- paid by the A/R subject to dollar limitations (See INCOME LIF BUDGETING METHODOLOGY CHILD/INCAPACITATED ADULT CARE COST);

Payments received from Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP);

CHILD SUPPORT ARREARAGE PAYMENTS- all arrearage payments must be budgeted as income in the month following the month the payment is issued and as a resource thereafter.

DISASTER RELIEF AND EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE - Any federal major disaster and emergency assistance provided under the Disaster Relief Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-288), as amended by the Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Amendments of 1988 (P.L. 100-107), and any comparable disaster assistance provided by states, local governments, and disaster assistance organization;

DONATED FOODS - The value of federally donated foods;

EARNED INCOME, PERCENTAGE OF, (See INCOME LIF BUDGETING METHODOLOGY EARNED INCOME DISREGARD).

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