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West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Chapter 4
West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Page 194 Chapter 4 Income
4.14.4.D.2 Other Excluded Income Sources Other excluded sources are: • Any portion of a grant, scholarship, fellowship, or gift used to pay tuition and fees • Money received for providing foster care to an ineligible child • The value of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits or Department of Agriculture donated foods • Home produce for personal consumption • Tax refunds on income, real property, or food purchased by the family • Income used to fulfill an approved PASS • Income used to comply with the terms of court-ordered support or support payments enforced under Title IV-D • Periodic payments made by a state under a program established before July 1,1973 and based solely on duration of residence and attaining age 65. Only that State of Alaska makes such payments. • Infrequent or irregular income • Work expenses of a blind individual • Income of the ineligible individual or parent that is paid under a federal, state, or local program to provide chore, attendant, or homemaker services to the eligible individual • Home energy assistance • The earned income of a student child, up to $2,410 a month, but not more than $9,730 per year, is excluded from the income of an ineligible child for purpose of determining the ineligible child allocation When the ineligible spouse's non-excluded income, as shown above and in Section 4.3, minus only the needs of ineligible children in the home, is greater than the Allocation Standard, the ineligible spouse's income is added to the eligible spouse's income. These are the SSI deeming provisions, which also require use of the couple income limit to determine eligibility for the individual when income is deemed. If the SSI-Related individual is a child, the income of the parent(s) is also deemed, and the above exclusions are applied to their income. NOTE: The income of separated spouses is not counted or deemed beginning in the month following the month in which the couple separates.