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452 nonparticipation in determining the 12-month exclusion (E) Educational Savings Account Money qualified tuition programs under Internal Revenue Code, Sections 529 or 530.

Count money deposited into non-tax exempt accounts.

(F) Energy assistance Energy assistance payments or allowances excluded as income.

(G) Federal statue Resources which are excluded for SNAP purposes by express provision of Federal statute.

(H) Funeral agreement/Burial Contract Prepaid The value of one bona fide funeral agreement per household member.

(I) Governmental payments designated for the restoration of a home damaged in a disaster

Any governmental payments which are designated for the restoration of a home damaged in a disaster, if the household is subject to a legal sanction if the funds are not used as intended; e.g. payments made by the Department of Housing and Urban Development through the Individual and Family Grant Program or disaster loans or grants made by the Small Business Administration.

(J) Home and surrounding property The home and surrounding property which is not separated from the home by intervening property owned by others. The home and surrounding property will remain exempt when temporarily unoccupied for reasons of employment, training for future employment, illness, or un-inhabitability caused by casualty or natural disaster, if the household intends to return. Households that currently do not own a home, but own or are purchasing a lot on which they intend to build or are building a permanent home, will receive an exclusion for the value of the lot and, if it is partially completed, for the home. Public rights of way, such as roads which run through the surrounding property and separate it from the home, will not affect the exemption of the property, (K) Household goods and personal effects

(L) Income Producing Property Property which annually produces income consistent with its fair market value, even if only used on a seasonal basis. Such property will include rental homes and vacation homes

(M) Income (resources prorated as income) Resources, such as those of students or self-employed persons, which have been prorated as income.

NOTE: The treatment of student income is explained in Section 7.4(4) and the treatment of self- employment income is explained in Section 11.4. (N) Indian lands

Indian lands held jointly with the Tribe or land that can be sold only with the approval of the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs.