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from the new source will not be received by the 10th calendar day after the date of application. These households may expect to start receiving income from a new job.

Income which is normally received on a monthly or more frequent basis is considered to be from a new source if income of more than $25 has not been received from that source within 30 days prior to the date the application was filed.

If income is normally received less often than monthly, however, it is considered to be from a new source if income of more than $25 was not received within the last normal interval between payments.

3. Households may receive both income from a terminated source prior to the date of application, and income from a new source after the date of application. They will still be destitute if:

a. they receive no other income in the month of application; and,

b. income of more than $25 from the new source will not be received by the 10th day after the date of application.

4. Destitute migrant or seasonal farmworker households must have their eligibility and level of benefits calculated for the month of application by considering only income which is received between the first of the month and the date of application. Any income from a new source that is anticipated after the day of application must be disregarded.

5. Some employers provide travel advances to cover the travel costs of new employees who must journey to the location of their new employment. To the extent that these payments are excluded as reimbursements, receipt of travel advances will not affect the determination of when a household is destitute. However, if the travel advance is, by written contract, an advance on wages that will be subtracted from wages later earned by the employee, rather than a reimbursement, the wage advance will count as income. Nevertheless, the receipt of a wage advance for the travel costs of a new employee will not affect the determination of whether subsequent payments from the employer are from a new source of income, nor whether a household shall be considered destitute.

Example

A household applies on May 10 and received $50 as a wage advance for travel from the new employer on May 1. There is a written contract that this is an advance on wages. Other wages from the employer will not start until May 30. The household is considered destitute. The May 30 payment must be disregarded, but the wage advance received prior to the date of application will count as income.

6. A household's source of income is its employer. The source of income is considered to be the grower for whom the migrant is working at a particular point in time, not the crew chief. A migrant who travels with the same crew chief but moves from one grower to another grower has moved from a terminated source of income to a new source of income.

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