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Revised: August 2025 Income Counted Types HE+ System Code Social Security (Retirement) Benefits paid from the Social Security Old Age and Survivor’s Insurance Trust Fund to retired workers, their spouses and children, and survivors of deceased workers. See also: Medicare Part B, Part C, and Part D. See Section 3.3.9. (If a lump sum retroactive payment is received, count only the amount of the payment that would have been received in the test period.) (SS) Social Security Disability Insurance Benefits paid from the Social Security Disability Insurance Trust Fund to disabled workers and their spouses and children. See also: Medicare Part B, Part C, and Part D Section 3.3.9. (If a lump sum retroactive payment is received, count only the amount of the payment that would have been received in the test period.) (SSDI) Spousal Impoverishment See Section 3.3.4. (SP) Strike Benefits Strike benefits are counted incomes. If the payment(s) includes an amount paid specifically for a period that does not include the prior month test period, that portion is ignored as income, except for seasonal workers.

NOTE: For seasonal workers see also Section 3.3.6. (W) Student Income Count all earned income, including wages from employment, work-study wages, and ROTC stipends. Other student stipends should be counted as other income.

Do not consider financial aid such as scholarships, education grants, fellowships, veterans’ educational benefits (including educational subsistence allowances), ROTC scholarships, GI Bill, student loans, or book reimbursements as income for student(s). (W)

(O) Supplemental Security Income Income paid to the disabled, elderly, and blind. Enter the federal and state benefit as two separate SSI income lines. Do not count SSI-E income. Verify that state SSI benefits do not include SSI-E. See Section 3.3.9, Ignored Income Table. (SSI) W-2/TANF Count only cash grants received. (T)