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16.7.33 Certain Payment Types Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic There is no uniform policy for how to count payment types related to the COVID-19 pandemic; some payment types are counted as assets and some payment types are not counted as assets. The criteria used to evaluate whether a payment type is counted as an asset include: • The text of the federal law that authorized the payment type • Guidance received from federal agencies • Whether the payment can be considered “disaster assistance” The payment types that do not count as assets include but are not limited to: • We’re All In Small Business Grants. • Child Care Counts supplementary payments, which are payments awarded to child care providers. • Wisconsin Emergency Rental Assistance (WERA) payments. • COVID-19 Funeral Assistance. • Emergency Assistance for Rural Housing/Rural Rental Assistance. • Homeowner Assistance Fund payments. • Housing Assistance and Supporting Services Programs for Native Americans payments. • Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF) payments. • Retroactive Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC), Mixed Earner Unemployment Compensation (MEUC), Extended Benefits (EB), and Lost Wages Assistance (LWA) payments. • Federal recovery rebates (sometimes referred to as Coronavirus stimulus payments or economic impact payments) issued by the IRS in response to the federal COVID-19 public health emergency. 16.7.34 Guaranteed Income Payments A guaranteed income payment that is retained in the month after the month of receipt is excluded as an asset indefinitely if all of the following apply: • The payment itself is privately funded. • The payment is administered by a non-profit organization. • The payment is separately identifiable (See SECTION 16.3 SEPARATE AND MIXED ASSETS). Guaranteed income payments that can be excluded include, but are not limited to, payments from the Madison Forward Fund, the Madison Forward Fund 2.0, and the Bridge Project in Milwaukee. See SECTION 15.3.36 GUARANTEED INCOME PAYMENTS for information about income treatment of guaranteed income payments. 16.7.35 Medicare Advantage Supplemental Benefits Disregard all Medicare Advantage supplemental benefits. A supplemental benefit is an item or service provided by a Medicare Advantage Plan that is not covered by original Medicare.