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6. Similar goods owned.

c. Income-producing property may be owned by an unemployed Reach Up household member, who can reasonably be expected to return to work.

1. If there is no expectation that the unemployed Reach Up household member will return to work in that particular field, then the personal property shall be considered a resource.

2257 Excluded Resources (08/01/2024, 23-28) a. The following items are excluded resources: 1. Retroactive corrective payments that resulted from a Department underpayment in the month following receipt of the Reach Up benefit (rule 2218); 2. Real property owned, used and occupied as a home by applicant/participant or the spouse of an applicant/participant; 3. Equity value in real property owned, but not occupied as a home, by an applicant/participant for a certain period of time when a good faith effort is being made to sell (rule 2255); 4. Basic items essential to daily living such as clothes, furniture and other similarly essential items of limited value; 5. Personal property used to produce income (rule 2256.6); 6. The value of 3SquaresVT benefits; 7. The value of the U. S. Department of Agriculture donated foods or surplus commodities; 8. Any resources held by a recipient of SSI/AABD; 9. Any payment received under Title II of the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970; 10. Bona fide loans (rule 2201), excluding loans to undergraduate students for educational purposes, shall not be considered to be income or a resource available to the household; 11. Grants, loans or work/study to any undergraduate student for educational purposes that are: i. Made or insured under any program administered by the Commissioner of Education; ii. The sponsor of such grant or loan precludes the use of such funds for maintenance purposes; or iii. The work/study program is administered by the college or university in which the undergraduate student is enrolled. 12. One burial plot for each Reach Up household member and one funeral agreement per member (rule 2256.3); 13. Any amount of renters’ or property tax rebate excluded from income under rule 2248.1 and set aside for the purpose of using it to pay rent or property taxes due within 12 months of the Reach Up household’s receipt of such rebate; 14. Payments to persons of Japanese or Aleut ancestry as restitution for injustices suffered during the