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ICF/ ID - Intermediate Care Facility for the Intellectually Disabled .

IHC - Inpatient Hospital Care.

IIM - Individual Indian Monies.

INA (Immigration and Naturalization Act) - P.L. 99-603.

IRA (Individual Retirement Account) - a pension or plan that permits individuals to set aside savings that are tax free until retirement.

IRS (Internal Revenue Service) - the U.S. government tax collection agency.

Immigrant - a person residing in, and who is not a citizen of the U.S.

Impairment-related work expenses - an amount disregarded for items or services which are directly related to enabling a person with a disability to work and which are necessarily incurred by the individual because of a physical or mental impairment.

Incapacitated - a temporary or permanent condition of blindness, physical disability or mental incompetence determined by WDH.

Income - money received from any source but not any item specified in policy as a resource.

A. Contract income - earnings paid through an agreement with another; considered self-employment if the individual is paying her/his own taxes;

B. Countable income - the amount of income used to determine eligibility.

C. Earned income - payment received in cash or in-kind for wages, salary, tips, commissions as an employee, or net-profit from activities in which the individual is engaged as self-employed.

D. Exempt income - money set aside or free from program policy or limits.

E. Fluctuating income - monthly income that varies in frequency of receipt or amount each month due to working overtime, hourly pay with varying hours, receipt of tips or commissions, changes of hours or pay rate or decrease or increase in hours of work due to vacations, sick leave or seasonal employment.

F. Gross income - the total money the person receives prior to any deductions such as Social Security, withholding tax, garnishments etc.

G. In-kind income - the receipt of goods or services instead of money.

H. Irregular income - income the applicant/recipient cannot reasonably expect to receive.

I. Net income or profit - the gross receipts from self-employment less the current business expenses and/or the allowable income deductions.

J. Nonexempt income - all money received to which the program policy limits are applied.

K. Ongoing income - money received on a regular basis, no less frequently than monthly, and is expected to continue.

L. Self-employment income - earning one's own living directly from one's own profession or business rather than earning a salary or commission from another.

M. Stable income - income received in a set/fixed amount from the same source(s) on a regular basis and there is no additional income that fluctuates.

N. Unearned income - all money received that is not earned by providing goods and services or defined as a resource.

Income producing property - property essential to the production of goods and services, including stock (merchandise), inventory, tools, equipment, trucks, cars, earth moving equipment, etc. This property is used in a trade, business, or other income producing activity.

Incomplete report - any information furnished in writing, in person or by phone which concerns a change in circumstances but is insufficient to verify and/or act upon the change.

Indian land - real property owned jointly by the tribe or where the sale can be made only with the permission of other owners, the tribe or the BIA.

Individual's Immediate Family “Individual” means the applicant or client. - The individual's immediate family includes his or her:

• parents, including adoptive parents;

• minor or adult children, including adoptive and stepchildren;

• siblings (brothers and sisters), including adoptive and stepsiblings.

“Immediate family” also includes the spouse of the above relatives. If the relative's relationship to the recipient is by marriage only, the marriage must be in effect in order for the burial space exclusion to continue to apply. For example, a burial space held for a sister-in-law is no longer excludable if she and the recipient's brother divorce.

Ineligible - not entitled to receive a benefit due to failure to meet one or more of the specified conditions required by the program.

Initial eligibility determination - the act of evaluating each eligibility factor for each person applying for benefits, and finding the case eligible or ineligible during the initial processing period.

Initial month - see Month.

Institution - an establishment that furnishes (in single or multiple facilities) food, shelter and/or some treatment or services to four or more persons unrelated to the proprietor.

Institutionalized individual - an individual who meets one of the following criteria:

A. A patient of a nursing facility.

B. A patient in a hospital receiving swing bed services.

C. A patient receiving home- or community-based services furnished under a waiver.

Institutionalized spouse - a spouse who lives in a swing bed, nursing home facility or receives HCBS or Hospice services.

Insurance settlements - the money received by a person(s) from a company for damage of property or person.

Irrevocable - incapable of being canceled, rescinded, broken or changed by the action of either party.

Irrevocable income trust - a document appointing a person, known as a Trustee, to manage the grantor’s income placed in the trust.