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Families and Children Manual Section: Financial Eligibility Policy Manual Number: 010.045 Chapter: Medically Needy Countable and Excluded Income
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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) 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 (and interest from payments); • Payments made to individuals because of their status as victims of Nazi persecutions (and interest from payments); • Payments to children born of Vietnam veterans diagnosed with spina bifida (and interest from payments); • Payments made under the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970 (interest is not excluded); • Revenues from the Alaska Native Fund paid under section 21(a) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act; and • State funds paid to crime victims. Social Services Any service (other than medical) which is intended to assist a handicapped or socially disadvantaged individual to function in society on a level comparable to that of an individual who does not have such a handicap or disadvantage. Cash received in conjunction with a social service is typically excluded unearned income. Social service programs include programs authorized under:
• Title XX of the Social Security Act; • Title IV-B of the Act (Child Welfare);