Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 24 - Mental Health › Part 1 - Policies of the Mississippi Board of Mental Health › Chapter 8 - Business › Subchapter 1 - Rate Setting and Sliding Fee Scale › Rule 24-1-8.1.8 - INCOME

Current through June 25, 2024
In determining a person's or family's income, the
					 following definition will be used:
A.
				  Income includes the total annual cash receipts before taxes from all sources,
				  with the exceptions noted below.
B. Income includes money wages and salaries
				  before any deductions; net receipts from non-farm self employment (receipts
				  from a person's own unincorporated business, professional enterprise, or
				  partnership, after deductions for business expenses); net receipts from farm
				  self-employment (receipts from a farm which one operates as an owner, renter,
				  or sharecropper, after deductions for farm operating expenses); regular
				  payments from unemployment compensation, strike benefits from union funds,
				  workers' compensation, public assistance (Aid to Families with Dependent
				  Children or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, and non-federally funded
				  General Assistance or General Relief money payments, and training stipends),
				  alimony, child support, and military family allotment or other regular support
				  from an absent family member or someone not living at the household; and
				  regular insurance or annuity payments; college or university scholarships,
				  grants, fellowships, and assistantships; and dividends, interest, net rental
				  income, net royalties, periodic receipts from estates or trusts, and net
				  gambling or lottery winnings.
C.
				  Income does not include the following types of money received: capital gains;
				  any assets drawn down as withdrawals from a bank, the sale of property, a
				  house, or a car; or tax refunds, gifts, loans, lump-sum inheritances, one time
				  insurance payments, or compensation for injury. Also excluded are non-cash
				  benefits, such as the employer paid or union paid portion of health insurance
				  or other employee fringe benefits, food or housing received in lieu of wages,
				  the value of food and fuel produced and consumed on farms, the imputed value of
				  rent from owner occupied non-farm or farm housing, and such federal non-cash
				  benefit programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, school lunches, and
				  housing assistance.
D. Income
				  received from the following sources are not subject to the discounted rate:
				  regular payments received from social security, railroad retirement, veterans
				  payments, supplemental security income, private pensions, government employee
				  pensions (including military retirement pay). The ability to pay for persons
				  receiving income from any of these sources will be determined on a case by case
				  basis.
E. Any item of income which
				  does not fit within any of the categories listed for inclusion or exclusion in
				  this definition will be evaluated on a case by case basis to determine whether
				  such income should be included or excluded.
Miss Code Ann.
					 §
											41-4-1
					 et seq., §
											41-7-79,
					 and §
											41-4-7.