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payment is made in the form of cash or a voucher and provided under the authority of any of the following, as amended: a. The United States Housing Act of 1937, 42 U.S.C. § 1437; b. The National Housing Act, 12 U.S.C. § 1715; c. § 101 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, 12 U.S.C. § 1701s; d. Title V of the Housing Act of 1949, 42 U.S.C. § 1471; or e. § 202(h) of the Housing Act of 1959, 12 U.S.C. § 1701q. 7. Food and Nutrition Assistance – Federal and State governments provide food and nutrition assistance via SNAP, national school breakfast and lunch programs, WIC and several other publicly funded programs that serve elders, children and persons with disabilities. Food and nutrition assistance from these program is excluded income. 8. Foster Care Payments – In contrast to countable payments made under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C §§ 670-679c, Foster Care payments provided under Title IV-B of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 621-628b, or Title XX of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1397- 1397n-13, are social services and are excluded from the foster child's income. 9. Gifts – Gifts from an organization which is tax exempt under the IRC to, or for the benefit of, a person under age eighteen (18), who has a life- threatening condition are excluded up to a maximum of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) in a calendar year. 10. Grants, Scholarships, Fellowship – Grants, scholarships, and fellowships are educational financing instruments funded by private, non-profit agencies, and Federal, State and local governments. Any portion of a grant, scholarship or fellowship used to pay for qualified education expenses (tuition, fees or books, etc.) is not countable income. This exclusion does not apply to any portion set aside or actually used for room and board. 11. Home Energy Assistance Payments – Home energy or support and maintenance assistance is excluded if it is based on need and provided in- kind by a private nonprofit agency or in cash or in-kind by a supplier of home heating oil or gas, a utility company providing home energy, or a municipal utility providing home energy. 12. Refugee Cash Assistance – Refugee cash assistance payments and federally reimbursed general assistance payments to refugees are