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13. Income tax refunds (including Earned Income Tax Credit payments and refunds). These exempt tax credits include federal earned income tax credits and state earned income tax credits.

14. Any payment made under the Fuel Assistance Program.

15. The value of supplemental food assistance received under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966. This includes all school meal programs; the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program; and the child care food program. Money paid to day care providers under the National School Lunch Act to serve meals to children, other than their own, is countable.

16. All federal, state, or local government rent and housing subsidies and utility payments.*

17. Any funds distributed to, or held in trust for, members of any Indian tribe under Public Law 92-254, 93-134, 94-540, 98-64, 98-123, 98-124 or 97-458. Additionally, interest and investment income accrued on such funds while held in trust, and purchases made with such interest and investment income are disregarded.**

18. The following of distributions received from a Native Corporation under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (Public Law 100-241):

a. Cash (including cash dividends on stock received from a Native Corporation) to the extent that the total received does not exceed $2,000 per individual per calendar year;

b. Stock (including stock issued or distributed by a Native Corporation as a dividend or distribution on stock);

c. A partnership interest;

d. Land or an interest in land (including land or an interest in land received from a Native Corporation as a dividend or distribution on stock); and

e. An interest in a settlement trust.

*45 CFR 233.20(a)(3)(xii) **45 CFR 233.20(a)(4)(ii)(e)

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