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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 8 of 11 25.Support payments received by a household but transferred to the Child Support Agency. 26.Vendor payments. Money payments that are not payable directly to the household but are paid to a third party for the household’s expenses are vendor payments. If any employer, agency, former spouse, or other person makes payments for household expenses to a third party from funds that are not owed to the household, these payments must be excluded as vendor payments. Exception: 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 are counted as income and are not excluded as vendor payments. The distinction is whether the person or organization making the payment on behalf of a household is using funds that otherwise would have to be paid to a household. These funds include any wages earned by a household member, support and alimony payments which legally must be paid to a household, educational loans on which payment is deferred, grants, scholarships, etc., which are paid to a third party for living expenses. 27.Money from any source that is deposited into a Plan for Achieving Self-Support (PASS) Account under Title XVI of the Social Security Act. 28.AmeriCorps a. Earnings for AmeriCorps on-the-job training for individuals under age 19 who are under the parental control of an adult household member. b. All VISTA income authorized under Domestic Volunteer Services Act. This would be treated like other VISTA income. i. Payments through VISTA will be excluded for those individuals receiving FF or SNAP at the time they joined the program. Temporary interruptions in SNAP shall not alter the exclusion once the initial determination has been made. ii. New applicants who were not receiving FF or SNAP at the time they joined VISTA shall have these payments included as earned income which would be subject to the earned income deduction. c. All income (earned or unearned) from other AmeriCorps Programs. 29.Allowances paid to children of Vietnam Veterans a. Benefits paid based upon the birth defect of spina bifida to children suffering from spina bifida if their mother or father served in Vietnam. b. The Vietnam Benefits and Health Care Improvement Act of 2000 (Section 401) is authorized to provide benefits to children with certain birth defects born to female Vietnam veterans. The payments are disregarded and were approved back to 12/1/2001. 30.SSI Lump Sum Installment Payments. Payments of large retroactive SSI benefit amounts are now required to be paid in an installment to the SSI recipient. The payments are to be paid in no more than three (3) installments and will be paid at six (6) month intervals.