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Any portion of a veterans benefit that is an aid & attendance (A&A) or housebound allowance or is intended to help the beneficiary pay for their unreimbursed medical expenses is not counted (see SECTION 15.3.26 VA ALLOWANCES). An applicant should check with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) at 1-800-827-1000 to determine what (if any) amount of their veterans benefit is considered an A&A or housebound allowance or is for unreimbursed medical expenses. Reimbursement from the VA for medical costs does not count as income. 33.6.9 Disregarded Income The applicant should not report income anticipated from any of the following: • Active Corps of Executives (see SECTION 15.3.22 SPECIAL PROGRAMS) • Adoption assistance payments (see SECTION 15.3.1 ADOPTION ASSISTANCE) • Agent Orange Settlement Fund payments (see SECTION 15.3.2 AGENT ORANGE SETTLEMENT FUND) • Disaster and emergency assistance payments made by federal, state, county, and local agencies or other disaster assistance agencies (see SECTION 15.3.5 DISASTER AND EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE) • Earned Income Tax Credit (see SECTION 16.7.8 EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT) • Earnings of a census enumerator (see SECTION 15.3.22 SPECIAL PROGRAMS) • Emergency Fuel Assistance payments (see SECTION 15.3.22 SPECIAL PROGRAMS) • Foster care payments (see SECTION 15.3.7 FOSTER CARE) • Foster Grandparents Program (see SECTION 15.3.22 SPECIAL PROGRAMS) • Governmental rent or housing subsidies (see SECTION 15.3.22 SPECIAL PROGRAMS) • Homestead Tax Credit (see SECTION 15.3.22 SPECIAL PROGRAMS) • Income tax refunds (both state and federal) (see SECTION 16.7.7 INCOME TAX REFUNDS) • Individual Development Account payments (see SECTION 15.3.9 INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNT PAYMENTS) • Kinship Care payments (see SECTION 15.3.11 KINSHIP CARE) • Low-Income Energy Assistance Program (see SECTION 15.3.22 SPECIAL PROGRAMS) • Older American Community Service Program (except for wages or salaries that are counted) (see SECTION 15.3.22 SPECIAL PROGRAMS) • Payments made to individuals because of their status as victims of Nazi persecution (see SECTION 15.3.15 PAYMENTS TO NAZI VICTIMS) • Payments received from the class action settlement of Susan Walker vs. Bayer Corporation. These payments are to hemophiliacs who contracted the HIV virus from contaminated blood products (see SECTION 15.3.24 SUSAN WALKER PAYMENTS). • Penalty payments made when the state does not correctly process child support refunds • Radiation Exposure Act program payments made to compensate injury or death due to radiation from nuclear testing and uranium mining (see SECTION 15.3.16 RADIATION EXPOSURE COMPENSATION ACT) • Reimbursement from private insurance company for medical, LTC, or dependent care expenses (see SECTION 15.3.19 REIMBURSEMENTS) • Restitution payments to individual Japanese-Americans (or their survivors) and Aleuts who were interned or relocated during World War II (see SECTION 15.3.27 WARTIME RELOCATION OF CITIZENS). • Retired Senior Volunteer Program (see SECTION 15.3.22 SPECIAL PROGRAMS) • Reverse mortgage payments (see SECTION 16.7.2.1 REVERSE MORTGAGE)