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(c) Any gain or benefit which is not in the form of money payable directly to the household, including nonmonetary or in-kind benefits, such as meals, clothing, public housing, or produce from a garden, and vendor payments. Money payments that are not payable directly to a household, but are paid to a third party for a household expense, are vendor payments and are excludable as follows:
(1) A payment made in money on behalf of a household shall be considered a vendor payment whenever a person or organization outside of the household uses its own funds to make a direct payment to either the household's creditors or a person or organization providing a service to the household.
(2) Payments in money that are not made to a third party, but are made directly to the household, are to be counted as income and are not excluded as a vendor payment except that rent or housing subsidies paid to a landlord by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development shall be considered a vendor payment regardless of whether the payment is made directly to the landlord or paid to the landlord through the household.
(3) Monies that are legally obligated and otherwise payable to the household, but which are diverted by the provider of the payment to a third party for a household expense must be counted as income and not excluded as a vendor payment. However, emergency public assistance payments to a third party made on behalf of migrant or seasonal farmworker households during the period such households are in the job stream must be excluded as income.