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- Payments made under the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation Grand Coulee Dam Settlement Act (P.L. 103-436).

l. Resources of SSI or TANF recipients. A separate evaluation of resources for SNAP purposes is not needed for a household in which all members are SSI or TANF recipients. In addition to the receipt of TANF income, the resource exclusion also applies to a household in which any member receives a TANF-funded service as defined as a PA Case in Definitions. The BPS must evaluate the resources of household members who do not receive SSI or TANF.

m. Amounts paid to individuals under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act for injuries or death resulting from exposure to radiation from nuclear testing and uranium mining in Arizona, Nevada and Utah (P.L. 101-426).

n. Payments to individuals because of their status as victims of Nazi persecution (P.L. 103-286).

o. Payments through the Department of Veteran Affairs to children of Vietnam veterans who are born with congenital spina bifida and payments to children of female Vietnam veterans who are born with certain birth defects (P.L. 104-204 and P.L. 106- 419).

p. Money in an Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) account. ABLE accounts are set up to provide funding for disability-related expenses for individuals determined to be disabled before age 26.

14. HUD retroactive tax and utility cost subsidy payments issued pursuant to the settlement of Underwood v. Harris, for the month in which payment was received and the following month.

15. Resources under a lien.

16. Money in individual development accounts (IDA). These exempt funds may be in the form of a trust, trust account or a custodial account. The owner of the account must be a current or former TANF recipient or one who is ineligible for TANF if the person’s income is less than 200 percent of the federal poverty guidelines. Funds in the account are exempt if they are not withdrawn. The account will remain exempt if the household withdraws the funds and uses the money to pursue post-secondary education, to purchase a house, to start a business or to meet an emergency need approved by the sponsoring agency. In Virginia, the accounts are called the Virginia Individual Development Account (VIDA) and Assets for Independence Account (AFIA).

17. Money in an escrow account established by the Family Self-Sufficiency Program through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

18. Money in educational accounts. These accounts include Coverdell Savings accounts and qualified tuition accounts (Internal Revenue Codes 529 and 530).

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