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Vermont Department for Children and Families Seasonal Fuel Assistance Rules Economic Services Division 2912 p.2 Excluded Income

iv. Payments by a government agency or program to a third party on behalf of the household to pay the household’s medical or childcare expenses;

v. Payments through the fuel assistance program (LIHEAP);

vi. Housing assistance when the fuel household lives in temporary housing;

vii. Payments converted to a direct cash payment when approved by a federally authorized demonstration project;

viii. General Assistance or Reach Up vendor payments for the housing and transportation of migrant and seasonal farmworker households, while workers are in the job stream;

ix. A vendor payment for educational assistance is excluded income if the same payment to the household would be excluded income under rule 2912(a)(7) or rule 2912(a)(8);

x. Reimbursements made in the form of vendor payments are excluded on the same basis as reimbursements paid directly to the household under rule 2912(a)(10); and

xi. Disaster assistance payments made to vendors are excluded income if the same payment to the household would be excluded income under rule 2912(a)(15);

6. Any income in the certification period that is received too infrequently or irregularly to be reasonably anticipated, but not more than $30 in a quarter;

7. All student financial assistance received under Title IV of the Higher Education Act, as amended, or under Bureau of Indian Affairs student assistance programs, regardless of use;

i. This includes all student financial assistance covered by 20 U.S.C. § 1087uu;

ii. A list of qualifying educational assistance may be found in the Fuel Procedures Manual;

8. Other scholarships, grants, deferred-payment student loans, and veterans’ educational benefits, not included under rule 2912(a)(7), if the educational assistance is both:

i. Awarded to a household member enrolled at a: