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West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Chapter 4

West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Page 204 Chapter 4 Income

bills; essential errands; activities and transportation necessary to move the client from place to place; other similar activities of daily living. Expenses billed to the client for the personal care services shown above must, at a minimum, specify the amount billed for each general group of services. Ongoing or one-time-only medical expenses are not projected. They must be used no earlier than actually incurred. Those persons who are billed for their care at intervals longer than monthly are to have the expenses used to meet spenddown on the date services are performed, not on the date billed. Such expenses are not incurred prior to receipt of services. 4.14.4.K Unavailable Income Income intended for the client but received by another person with whom he does not live, when the individual receiving this income refuses to make it available, is excluded. 4.14.4.L Income Received for a Non-Income Group Member Income received by a member of the Income Group, which is intended and used for the care and maintenance of an individual, whose income is not used in determining the eligibility or benefit level of the payee's AG, is excluded as income. 4.14.4.M Income Received from Military Service Personnel Deployed to a Designated Combat Zone Military pay received while serving in a combat zone is excluded. Only pay which is specified for combat, hostile fire, or imminent danger is excluded. All other military pay is counted. Pay for a member of the uniformed services is determined by using the individual’s Leave and Earnings Statement (LES), which is received at the beginning of the month. The LES shows the earnings for services performed in the prior month. See Section 7.3.