1600.2.100 Vendor Payments

Exclude the following vendor payments: Payments made from their own funds by a person outside the household or by an organization to a third party for a household’s expense. Payments made by a person sharing housing with the 3SVT household to a third party for household’s shelter expense. Rent or mortgage payments made to the landlord or lender by the Department of HUD or by state or local housing authorities. Payments by a government agency/program to a third party on behalf of the household to pay the household’s medical or child care expenses. Payments through the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program. Housing assistance when a household lives in temporary housing. Payments converted to a direct cash payment when approved by a federally authorized demonstration project.

E xceptions: See Legally Obligated Money and General Assistance .

See Determining Monthly Deductions - Disallowed Expenses on how to handle deductions.

Exclude General Assistance or Reach Up vendor payments for the housing and transportation of Migrant Worker and Seasonal Farmworker households while workers are in the job stream. See Migrants and Seasonal Farmworkers .