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Aged, Blind and Disabled Manual Policy Manual Number: 110.050 Section: Financial Eligibility Requirements Chapter: ABD Countable and Excluded Resources

September 1, 2026 Division of TennCare 48 • Settlement or Disaster Payment, if excluded by policy; and • SSI/SSA Retroactive Payment (subject to time limits).

Note: Income tax refunds (including any advance payments), such as the Child Tax Credit, are excluded as a resource for a period of 12 months following receipt.

Settlement or Disaster Payment Resource Characteristic Payments or benefits provided under certain federal statutes are excluded. Excluded settlement and/or disaster payments include:

• Agent Orange Settlement 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 (P.L. 92-254); o Grand River Band of Ottawah Indiana in Indian Claims Commission Docket No. 40-K; o Tribes of groups under P.L. 93-134; o Yakima Indian Nation or the Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation (P.L. 94-433); and o Receipts from land held in trust by the Federal government and distributed to certain Indian tribes under P.L. 94-114. • Factor VIII or IX Concentrate Blood Products Litigation: Settlement payments made as a result of the class action lawsuit to hemophilia patients infected with HIV through blood plasma products; • Filipino Veterans Equity Compensation Fund Payments: Lump sum payments made to certain veterans and spouses of veterans who served in the military of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines during WWII; • Japanese-American and Aleutian Restitution Payments; • Payments made to individuals because of their status as victims of Nazi persecutions; • Payments to children born of Vietnam veterans diagnosed with spina bifida;