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Earned income verified by telephone call to the employer, or by any other acceptable means must be documented with detail.

8502 DOCUMENTATION OF OTHER INCOME

The method used to verify income other than earned income must be documented. This includes the type of income, the check or document seen, the amount from the check or document, the date the income was verified, and any computations performed to determine the total income.

Self-employment income documentation must consist of recording the business records, income tax forms and method used to average income, the costs of doing business allowed as deductions, documentation that the household has no allowable deductions or requests to use actual deductions if the simplified self-employment calculation isn’t used, and the number of hours the individual is engaged in the enterprise for work registration purposes. Any other considerations which guide the Specialist's decision, such as influence of seasonal or local economic factors, also must be documented. Documentation contained in the case file is sufficient recording of TANF household income.

8600 COMPUTATION OF INCOME

Income and expenses prospectively budgeted are used to determine net SNAP income for the application month and future benefit months. It is essential that the best available information is used in prospective budgeting. This may mean using the past 30 days wages, obtaining a wage verification form from the employer, or averaging the income. The budget should be accurate for the household and to the best extent possible, for future benefit periods.

8601 DETERMINING MONTHLY INCOME

In determining the household's eligibility and basis of issuance, income already received by the time of interview and any anticipated income the household and the Specialist are reasonably certain will be received during the remainder of the certification period, are considered countable income.

Income received in the past 30 days may be used as an indication of income that will be received by the household on a monthly basis. The income should be counted in the month it is received or anticipated to be received; income that is paid weekly or bi-weekly will be converted by using a conversion factor of 2.15 for bi-weekly payments and 4.3 for weekly payments.

Households receiving income on a recurring monthly or semi-monthly basis will not have their monthly income varied merely because of changes in mailing cycles or pay dates, or because of weekends or holidays cause additional payments to be received in a month. If the household has stable earned or unearned income that is received in the form of a monthly or semi-monthly payment, the income should be counted in the month it was intended to cover, and on the date it would have normally been received. Temporary mail delays or other temporary problems should not result in the household showing two or three payments in one month and only 1 payment in the following month. This regulation, however, only affects income that is stable and income that is received monthly or semi-monthly, not bi-weekly.