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• "Need-related payments" paid to people as allowances to enable them to participate in a training program. • "Compensation in lieu of wages" paid to people in "work experience" and/or "transitional jobs." This is arranged when private-for-profit opportunities are not available. • "Payments for supportive services" that enable participation in WIOA career and/or training services (e.g., transportation, health care, child care, meals). Earned WIOA income is paid in the form of wages from on-the-job training activities. Disregard all earned WIOA income of a minor for up to a total of six months per calendar year. Negotiate with the Medicaid group which six months of income to disregard. The six months do not need to be consecutive. Budget WIOA income earned by a minor in other than these six months according to (SECTION 15.5.8. STUDENT INCOME). Count the earned WIOA income of adult participants. The Job Corps Program is a part of WIOA. Consider a minor who is participating in the Job Corps as a student when you calculate the income disregards for full-time students and part-time students who are not employed full-time. Consider Job Corps payments to adult participants as unearned WIOA income. 15.4.14 Child Support Count child support income as unearned income. Child support payments (including arrearage payments) made to or on behalf of a disabled child are counted as unearned income to the child. One-third of the amount of a child support payment made to or for a disabled child by an absent parent is excluded as income. This income exclusion applies to both court-ordered and voluntary child support payments. This exclusion only applies to payments made by an absent parent. Sometimes a family is reunited, and the parent is still making child support payments, in compliance with a court order, even though that parent is now living with the child. Under these circumstances, the one-third income exclusion is not allowed since the parent is no longer considered to be an absent parent. The one-third income exclusion described above only applies to EBD Medicaid eligibility determinations; it does not apply to BadgerCare Plus eligibility determinations. 15.4.15 Profit Sharing Count profit sharing income as unearned income. 15.4.16 Income Received by Members of a Religious Order Count any compensation that a member of a religious order receives, not related to gainful employment, as unearned income even if the compensation is turned over to the order. Count the compensation as earned income if it meets the criteria in SECTION 15.5.12 INCOME RECEIVED BY MEMBERS OF A RELIGIOUS ORDER.