Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 30 - KANSAS DEPARTMENT FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES › Article 4 - PUBLIC ASSISTANCE PROGRAM › Section 30-4-112 - Income exempt from consideration as income and as a cash asset

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
The following income shall be exempt, except as provided in
				K.A.R.
				30-4-110(b):
(a) Grants and scholarships provided for
			 educational purposes;
(b) the
			 value of benefits provided under the food stamp program;
(c) the value of the U.S. department of
			 agriculture donated foods;
(d) the
			 value of supplemental food assistance received under the child nutrition act of
			 1966, as amended, and the special food service program for children under the
			 national school lunch act, as amended;
(e) benefits received under title V,
			 community services employment program, or title VII, nutrition program for the
			 elderly, of the older Americans act of 1965, as amended;
(f) Indian funds distributed or held in
			 trust, including interest and investment income accrued on such funds while
			 held in trust and initial purchases made with such funds;
(g) distributions to natives under the Alaska
			 native claims settlement act;
(h)
			 payments provided to individual volunteers serving as foster grandparents,
			 senior health aides, and senior companions, and to persons serving in the
			 service corps of retired executives and active corps of executives under titles
			 II and III of the domestic service act of 1973;
(i) payments to individual volunteers under
			 title I, sec. 404(g) of Public Law 93-113 when the director of ACTION
			 determines that the value of such payments, adjusted to reflect the number of
			 hours such volunteers are serving, is less than the federal minimum wage;
(j) payments received under the
			 uniform relocation assistance and real property acquisition policies act of
			 1970;
(k) death benefits from SSA,
			 VA, railroad retirement, or other burial insurance policy when the benefit is
			 used toward the cost of burial;
(l) a one-time payment or a portion of a
			 one-time payment from a cash settlement for repair or replacement of property
			 or for legal services, or medical costs or other required obligations to a
			 third party, if the payment is expended or committed to be expended for the
			 intended purpose within six months of its receipt;
(m) money that VA determines may not be used
			 for subsistence needs held in trust by VA for a child;
(n) retroactive corrective assistance
			 payments in the month received or in the following month;
(o) income directly provided by vocational
			 rehabilitation;
(p) benefits from
			 special government programs at the discretion of the secretary, including
			 energy assistance programs.
(q)
			 cash donations that are based on need, do not exceed $300 in any calendar
			 quarter, and are received from one or more private, nonprofit, charitable
			 organizations;
(r) reimbursements
			 for out-of-pocket expenses in the month received and the following month;
(s) proceeds from any bona fide
			 loan requiring repayment;
(t)
			 payments granted to certain U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry and resident
			 Japanese aliens under Title I of Public Law 100-383;
(u) payments granted to certain Aleuts under
			 Title II of Public Law 100-383;
(v) agent orange settlement payments;
(w) foster care and adoption
			 support payments;
(x) the amount
			 of any earned income tax credit received. Such credit shall not be regarded as
			 a cash asset in the month of receipt and the following month;
(y) federal major disaster and emergency
			 assistance and comparable disaster assistance provided by state or local
			 government or by disaster assistance organizations in conjunction with a
			 presidentially declared disaster;
(z) payments granted to the Aroostook Band of
			 Micmac Indians under Public Law 102-171;
(aa) payments from the radiation exposure
			 compensation trust fund made by the department of justice; and
(bb) special federal allowances paid monthly
			 to children of Vietnam veterans who are born with spina bifida.
This regulation shall take effect on and after October 1, 1997.