Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 3 - Public Assistance and Medical Assistance › Chapter 47 - General Relief › Article 2 - General Relief Assisted Living Home Care › 7 AAC 47.345 - Income exclusions

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Certain types of income, excluded under
				  the APA program in 7 AAC 40, are also excluded under this chapter in
				  determining the total monthly income of an individual described in
				  7 AAC 47.330, together with spousal income, if any,
				  under 7 AAC 47.360, including
(1) cash or other property received from the
				  sale, exchange, or other disposition of a resource;
(2) the premium payment for supplementary
				  medical insurance under Title XVIII of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
				  1395 s), if paid by a third party;
(3) the value of any third-party payment for
				  medical care or medical services, including payment for room and board
				  furnished during medical confinement;
(4) the value of any support and maintenance
				  furnished in kind;
(5) the value of
				  any social services furnished by a governmental or private agency;
(6) income tax refunds;
(7) the amount of any ordinary and necessary
				  expense incurred in getting or receiving unearned income, except for income
				  tax;
(8) the amount of any ordinary
				  and necessary expense of operating and maintaining property that is producing
				  rent, except for depreciation and acquisition costs other than
				  interest;
(9) $1,500 of the
				  proceeds of any life insurance policy or the amount spent by the beneficiary of
				  the policy on the insured's last illness and burial, whichever is
				  less;
(10) any income that would be
				  excluded under
				  7 AAC 47.355 if the income were considered to be a
				  resource;
(11) any taxes on real
				  property or food refunded by a public agency;
(12) any portion of a grant, scholarship, or
				  fellowship that is not made or insured by the United States Department of
				  Education but is used to pay for tuition, fees, books, or supplies at an
				  educational institution;
(13) the
				  value of any agricultural products or foodstuffs obtained through subsistence
				  activities, if not obtained through a trade or business, and consumed by the
				  individual or that person's immediate family;
(14) any earned income that does not exceed
				  $10 a month and either is received less frequently than twice a quarter or
				  cannot be reasonably anticipated;
(15) any unearned income that does not exceed
				  $20 a month and either is received less frequently than twice a quarter or
				  cannot be reasonably anticipated;
(16) payments made under AS 47.45 (Alaska
				  Longevity Bonus);
(17) payments for
				  the foster care of a child who is ineligible for SSI or assistance under 7 AAC
				  40 (Adult Public Assistance);
(18)
				  one-third of any income received by a child from an absent parent; in this
				  paragraph, "child" includes a person who is not married, not the head of a
				  household, and either under 18 or under 22 and attending a school, college,
				  university, or course of vocational or technical training to prepare for
				  gainful employment;
(19) $1,200 a
				  calendar quarter, not to exceed $1,620 a year, of the earned income of a person
				  under 22 with a disability, including blindness, who regularly attends school,
				  as provided in 20 C.F.R.
				  416.1112;
(20) $65 a month of any earned income plus
				  one-half of the remainder;
(21) the
				  amount of any expenses for aid to the blind that are reasonably attributable to
				  the earning of income;
(22) income
				  needed to fulfill a plan for achieving self-support that has been approved by
				  the Social Security Administration or by the division of vocational
				  rehabilitation;
(23) the first $20
				  a month of income, earned or unearned, other than unearned income based on
				  need;
(24) a permanent fund
				  dividend issued under AS 43.23;
(25) veterans' benefits paid under
				  38 U.S.C.
				  1110 or
				  38 U.S.C.
				  1131;
(26) compensation to volunteers under the
				  federal retired and senior volunteers, foster grandparents, and senior
				  companion programs  (42
				  U.S.C. 5001,
				  42 U.S.C.
				  5011, and
				  42 U.S.C.
				  5013, respectively), in accordance with
				  42 U.S.C.
				  5044(f);
(27) federal World War II restitution
				  payments made under 50 U.S.C. App. l989b-4 and l989c-5;
(28) payments under AS 18.67 (crime victim
				  compensation);
(29) Agent Orange
				  Settlement Fund payments made under
				  P.L.
				  101-201 and
				  sec.
				  10405 of
				  P.L.
				  101-239;
(30) burial spaces owned by the individual
				  and intended for use by the individual or the individual's spouse or dependent;
				  and
(31) the income of the
				  individual's spouse, if any, that is protected under
				  7 AAC 47.360 and, if the spouse's income is less than
				  $2,000 a month, so much of the individual's income as will bring the spouse's
				  income up to $2,000 a month.