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INCOME

LIF DISREGARDS

Alaskan Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) distributions. The following distributions from a native corporation formed pursuant to ANCSA are disregarded 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.

NYS DEPARTMENT OF LABOR PAYMENTS - Payments from Youth Education, Employment and Training Programs (Department of Labor programs).

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 Act; and Netherlands Reparation Payments based on Nazi, but not Japanese, persecution.

(MRG)