Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 67 - SOCIAL SERVICES › Part III - Economic Stability › Subpart 2 - Family Independence Temporary Assistance Program › Chapter 12 - Application, Eligibility, and Furnishing Assistance › Subchapter B - Conditions of Eligibility › Section III-1229 - Income

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. Income is any
					 gain or benefit to a household that has monetary value and is not considered a
					 resource. Count all income in determining pretest eligibility except income
					 from:
1. adoption assistance;
2. earned income of a child, including a
					 minor unmarried parent, who is in school and working toward a high school
					 diploma, GED, or special education certificate;
3. disaster payments;
4. Domestic Volunteer Service Act;
5. earned income credits (EIC);
6. education assistance;
7. energy assistance;
8. foster care payments;
9. monetary gifts up to $30 per calendar
					 quarter;
10. agent orange
					 settlement payments;
11. HUD
					 payments or subsidies other than those paid as wages or stipends under the HUD
					 Family Investment Centers Program;
12. income in-kind;
13. Indian and native claims and
					 lands;
14. irregular and
					 unpredictable sources;
15. lump sum
					 payments;
16. nutrition
					 programs;
17. job training income
					 that is not earned;
18. relocation
					 assistance;
19. loans;
20. supplemental security income;
21. wartime relocation of civilians
					 payments;
22. developmental
					 disability payments;
23. Delta
					 Service Corps post-service benefits paid to participants upon completion of the
					 term of service if the benefits are used as intended for higher education,
					 repayment of a student loan, or for closing costs or down payment on a
					 home;
24. Americorps VISTA payments
					 to participants (unless the value of all such payments, adjusted to reflect the
					 number of hours such volunteers are serving, is equivalent to or greater than
					 the minimum wage);
25. radiation
					 exposure compensation payments;
26.
					 payment to victims of Nazi persecution;
27. restricted income received for a person
					 not in the assistance unit or not in the income unit. Restricted income is
					 income which is designated specifically for a person's use by federal statute
					 or court order and may include RSDI, VA benefits and court ordered-support
					 payments;
28. crime victim
					 compensation program payments to an applicant/recipient whose assistance is
					 necessary, in full or in part, because of the commission of a crime against the
					 applicant, and to the extent it is sufficient to fully compensate the applicant
					 for losses suffered as a result of the crime;
29. effective October 1, 2004 additional pay
					 received and made available to the household by a member of the United States
					 Armed Forces deployed to a designated combat zone;
30. effective March 1, 2006, interest
					 income;
31. effective March 1,
					 2006, dividend income;
Exception: Dividends received from a resource-exempt
						trust fund will not be excluded as income.
32. any payments other than wages received as
					 a result of the Mississippi Canyon 252 well incident in the Gulf of Mexico on
					 April 20, 2010; or
33. grant funded
					 research payments.