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Infrequent income is defined as income that an individual receives only once during a calendar quarter from a single source and that the individual did not receive in the month immediately preceding that month or in the month immediately subsequent to that month, regardless of whether or not those payments occur in different calendar quarters. Income is considered to be received irregularly if an individual cannot reasonably expect to receive it. Exclude the following income that is received either infrequently or irregularly: • The first $30 per calendar quarter of earned income. • The first $60 per calendar quarter of unearned income. 15.3.11 Kinship Care Disregard Kinship Care payments. 15.3.12 Life Insurance Disregard life insurance policy dividends. 15.3.13 Nutrition Benefits Disregard benefits received from the following: 1. Emergency Food and Shelter National Board 2. FEMA 3. FoodShare coupon allotment 4. Home produce for household consumption 5. National School Lunch Act 6. Supplemental food assistance under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 7. Title VII, Nutrition Program for the Elderly, of the Older Americans Act of 1965 8. USDA Child Care Food Program 9. USDA-donated food and other emergency food 10. WIC, the supplemental food program for women, infants, and children 15.3.14 Payments to Native Americans Disregard the following payments to Native Americans: 1. Menominee Indian Bond interest payments 2. All judgment payments to tribes through the Indian Claims Commission or Court of Claims 3. Payments under the Alaskan Native Claims Settlement Act 4. Payments under the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Fund 5. Payments under PL 93-124 to the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe, except individual shares over $2,000 6. Payments under PL 93-134 to the Maricopa Ak-Chin Indian Community, Navajo Tribe, Coast Indian Community of the Resighini Rancheria, Stillaguamish Tribe, Pueblo of Taos Tribe, Walker River Paiute Tribe, and White Earth Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, except individual shares over $2,000 7. Payments under PL 94-114 to the Bad River Band and Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Chippewa Indians and the Stockbridge-Munsee Indian Community of Mohicans 8. Payments under PL 96-318 to the Delaware Tribe of Kansas and of Idaho