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Aged, Blind and Disabled Manual Section: Financial Eligibility Requirements Policy Manual Number: 110.030 Chapter: ABD Unearned Income

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Count the net rental income in determining income eligibility. Gross income from rent is subject to deductions for paid expenses necessary for the production or collection of income. See Self-Employment.

Royalties/Honoraria Countable.

Royalties are countable unearned income when the individual receives payment based on the use of a natural resource for which he owns the usage rights.

Settlements and Restitutions Excluded.

The following settlements and restitution payments are excluded as unearned income:

• Agent Orange Settlement Payments (and interest from payments); • Disaster Relief Assistance received under the Disaster Relief Act of 1974; • Distribution of perpetual judgment funds to Indian tribes under the following: o Indian Judgment Funds Distribution (P.L 93- 134); o Black Feet and Gros Ventre Tribes (PL 92- 254); o Grand River Band of Ottawah Indiana in Indian Claims Commission Docket No. 40-K; o Tribes of groups under PL 93-134; o Yakima Indian Nation or the Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation (PL 94-433); and o Receipts from land held in trust by the Federal government and distributed to certain Indian tribes under PL 94-114; • Factor VIII or IX Concentrate Blood Products Litigation. The settlement payments (and interest from payments) made as a result of the class action lawsuit to hemophilia patients infected with HIV through blood plasma products; • Filipino Veterans Compensation Fund Payments: Lump sum payments (and interest from payments)