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Micmacs Settlement Act; 25. Student financial assistance provided under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act is disregarded as resources when the assistance is made available to meet attendance costs, which include: i. Tuition and fees normally assessed a student carrying the same academic workload as the applicant/participant, as determined by the institution, including costs for rental or purchase of any equipment, materials, or supplies required of all students in the same course of study; and ii. An allowance for books, supplies, transportation, dependent care and miscellaneous personal expenses for a student attending the institution on at least a half-time basis, as determined by the institution.

26. Student financial assistance provided under Title IV of the Higher Education Act or Bureau of Indian Affairs Student Assistance programs, including the following. i. Pell Grants; ii. Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants (SEOG); iii. State Student Incentive Grants (SSIG); iv. College Work Study (CWSP); v. Perkins Loans (formerly National Direct Student Loans), which do not include the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act outlined below; or vi. Guaranteed Student Loans (GSLP), including PLUS loans and Supplemental Loans for students.

27. Financial assistance paid through the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000, as amended, as major disaster and emergency assistance, including additional relief provided by States, local governments and disaster assistance organizations; i. This disaster coverage is intended to provide relief to people living or working in an area severely struck by natural or man-made disaster. ii. The disaster must have been so severe as to cause the President to designate a Federal Disaster Zone. 28. German reparations to concentration camp survivors, slave laborers, partisans, and other victims of the Holocaust; 29. Settlement payments to victims of Nazi persecution or their legal heirs resulting from the confiscation of assets during World War II; 30. Loan and cash value of whole life insurance; 31. Savings from earned income, matching dollar contributions, and accumulated interest deposited in Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) or a matched savings account sponsored by a community organization; 32. Funds in a retirement account, such as an individual retirement arrangement (IRA), a defined