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Subject: SNAP Income

Policy 24.14 Date of Last Review: 11/30/2023 Effective Date: 01/04/2022 Date of Next Review: 11/30/2026 RDA: SW22 Page 3 of 11 averaged over the certification period (Refer to Unearned Income Section for payments received after employment is terminated) 6. Income received from Jury Duty 7. Pay and allowances of a member of a uniformed service (Staff can also refer to supporting document Military Pay for SNAP Determination for different types of military pay and how it is determined for SNAP income) 8. Payments received through the Work Innovation Opportunity Act (WIOA), AmeriCorps, and YouthBuild On-The-Job Training Programs, unless the participant is under the age of nineteen (19) and under the parental control of another adult household member. (See the Excluded Income Section below for certain On-The-Job Training Programs that are excluded). D. Unearned Income Unearned income is any income that does not meet the definition of earned income. No earned income exclusions or work expense deductions may be applied to unearned income as defined. The following payments are considered unearned income (this list is not all-inclusive): 1. Unemployment and Workmen’s Compensation 2. Strike Benefits (Strikers are eligible to participate in the program if they meet all eligibility requirements of the strike.) As defined in 24.20 SNAP Strikers. 3. Vacation, sick, maternity, short term disability, or any bonus payments received in installments by an individual whose employment has ended 4. Severance pay when received after termination of employment 5. Rental Income unless it meets criteria for earned income in the supporting document Consideration of Self-Employment and Contract Employees for SNAP 6. Interest payments, dividends, and royalty’s income and all other such direct money payments that can be for gain or benefit 7. Annuities, pensions, retirement, VA benefits, Social Security benefits, military, and Job Corps allotments, and other such pensions and benefits 8. Child support or alimony payments from non-household members made directly to the household (Staff can also refer to supporting document Child Support and Pass-through Payment for SNAP Income) 9. Regular cash contributions or gifts made to the household unless otherwise exempt based on Excluded income 10.Monies withdrawn or dividends received from trust funds when the trust fund has been excluded as a resource shall be considered unearned income in the month received or otherwise became available to the household 11.Consider general assistance payments (Families First or SSI) or other countable needs-based assistance payments, unless excluded, as unearned income (See also Penalty for SNAP due to Failure to Comply)