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• Board (meals or meal plans) • Personal expenses • Transportation and parking • Loan fees • Health insurance costs 26. Stipends from the University of Wisconsin Upward Bound Program Paid to high school students to encourage low-income students to further their education. 27. Tax Refunds (Federal income tax refunds, including amounts for the Child Tax Credit and the EITC) 28. Unpredictable Income Income that is unpredictable, irregular, and has no appreciable effect on ongoing need. 29. Veterans Benefits Do not count any veterans' benefits paid under any law, regulation, or administrative practice administered by the VA. The following amounts paid to veterans or their families are not countable: • Education, training, and subsistence allowances (that is, GI Bill benefits). • Disability compensation and pension payments for disabilities paid either to veterans or their families. • Grants for homes designed for wheelchair living. • Grants for motor vehicles for veterans who lost their sight or the use of their limbs. • Veterans' insurance proceeds and dividends paid either to veterans or their beneficiaries, including the proceeds of a veteran's endowment policy paid before death. • Interest on insurance dividends left on deposit with the VA. • Benefits under a dependent care assistance program. • The death gratuity paid to a survivor of a member of the Armed Forces who died after September 10, 2001. • Payments made under the compensated work therapy program. • Any bonus payment by a state or political subdivision because of service in a combat zone. Do not count VA allowances for unusual medical expenses that are received by a veteran, their surviving spouse, or dependent. Do not count aid and attendance and housebound allowances received by veterans, spouses of disabled veterans, and surviving spouses. For institutionalized and community waiver cases, do not count these allowances in eligibility and post-eligibility determinations, except for residents of the State Veterans Home at King. 30. Wartime Relocation of Citizens (PL 100-383) restitution payments made to individual Japanese Americans (or their survivors) and Aleuts who were interned or relocated during World War II. 31. Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Unearned Income Income paid to any adult or minor participating in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), including: