Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 67 - SOCIAL SERVICES › Part III - Economic Stability › Subpart 3 - Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) › Chapter 19 - Certification of Eligible Households › Subchapter I - Income and Deductions › Section III-1980 - Income Exclusions

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. In
					 addition to those income exclusions previously adopted and codified in Chapter
					 19, Certification of Eligible Households, the following income types will be
					 excluded from countable income for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
					 Program (SNAP):
1. payments or allowances to
					 provide energy assistance under any federal law, including the Department of
					 Housing and Urban Development and the Farmers Home Administration, except that
					 provided under title IV-A;
2.
					 earnings of an elementary or secondary student through age 17 who is the child
					 of, or under parental control of, a member of the household;
3. legally obligated child support payments
					 to non-household members are excluded when determining eligibility based on
					 gross income standards;
4.
					 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;
5. agent
					 orange settlement payments income (retroactive to 01-01-89);
6. agriculture and stabilization and
					 conservation service payments received as a result of a presidentially-declared
					 disaster or emergency;
7.
					 assistance payments income that is being recouped for overpayment of non-fraud
					 overpayments;
8. bonus income that
					 is non-recurring or cannot be anticipated to recur;
9. child care food program payments received
					 for the client's own children;
10.
					 child support income received by FITAP/KCSP recipients, which must be
					 transferred to IV-D to maintain eligibility;
11. child support arrearage payments that
					 were previously counted as income or payment that is a one-time non-recurring
					 lump-sum payment;
12. deposits made
					 into joint accounts when the joint account is considered a convenience account,
					 the income deposited into the account is verified to be a loan, or the account
					 is considered inaccessible to the household;
13. disaster payments provided to rebuild a
					 home or replace personal possessions damaged in a disaster if the household is
					 subject to legal sanction if the funds are not used as intended. This includes
					 individual and family grant payments or small business administration
					 loans;
14. disaster relief income
					 funded under national emergency grants or disaster unemployment assistance paid
					 to an individual who is unemployed as a result of a major disaster;
15. the prorated portion of the income for
					 persons disqualified for SSNs, for ineligible aliens, or for persons who failed
					 to attest to citizenship/alien status;
16. Delta Service Corps income if the
					 allowances, earnings, and payments to individuals participating in the programs
					 are received under title I of the National and Community Service Act;
17. Domestic Volunteer Service Act income
					 received by volunteers for services performed in programs stipulated in title
					 II of the amended Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 ( P.L. 93-118), which
					 include Foster Grandparents and Retired Senior Volunteer Program; or payments
					 received by volunteers for services in programs under title I (VISTA) if the
					 person was receiving food stamps or public assistance when he joined VISTA or
					 the household was receiving an income exclusion for a title I subsistence
					 allowance at the time of conversion to the Food Stamp Act of 1977;
18. Indian and native claims and lands income
					 received:
a. under Public Law 94-189, (Sac
					 and Fox Indian Claims Agreement);
b. under Public Law 94-540, (Grand River Band
					 of Ottawa Indians);
c. under Public
					 Law 95-433, section 2, Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakima Nation and
					 the Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation received from the Indian Claims
					 Commission;
d. by certain Indian
					 tribal members under Public Law 94-114, section 6, regarding submarginal lands
					 held in trust by the United States;
e. under Public Law 93-531 (Navajo and Hopi
					 Tribes);
f. tax-exempt portions
					 made pursuant to Public Law 92-203, The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act;
					 or
g. under Public Law 96-420
					 (Passamaquoddy Tribe and Penobscot Nation, or the Houlton Band of Maliseet
					 Indians pursuant to the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980);
19. Indian gambling operations
					 income paid to children under 18 when the household is not given a choice and
					 the money is deposited in an inaccessible trust fund;
20. in-kind income not in the form of money
					 payable directly to the household except earned income vendor payments made by
					 the employer instead of all or part of the salary;
21. irregular and unpredictable income when
					 the anticipated income will be less than $30 in a three-month period, and the
					 income is received too infrequently and irregularly to be reasonably
					 anticipated;
22. strategies to
					 empower people (STEP) payments for supportive services;
23. loans;
24. non-recurring lump-sum
					 payments;
25. crime victim
					 compensation payments made to a client whose assistance is necessary, in full
					 or in part, because of the commission of a crime against the client, and to the
					 extent it is sufficient to fully compensate the client for losses suffered as a
					 result of the crime;
26. National
					 and Community Service Corporation payments for living allowance (stipend) and
					 child care received by participants as well as in-kind benefits provided to the
					 participants;
27. non-household
					 member's portion of income that is received by a household member which is
					 intended and used for care and maintenance of a third-party beneficiary who is
					 not a household member;
28.
					 nutrition programs income the value of supplemental food assistance under the
					 Child Nutrition Act of 1966 and under the Special Food Service Program for
					 Children (the National School Lunch Act) or benefits received under title VII,
					 Nutrition Program for the Elderly, of the Older Americans Act of
					 1965;
29. payments made to victims
					 of Nazi persecution;
30. payments
					 made to persons through the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, which was
					 enacted October 15, 1990;
31.
					 railroad retirement income that is being recouped for a prior
					 overpayment;
32. reimbursement
					 income which:
a. is not a gain or benefit to
					 the household;
b. is not provided
					 specifically for normal living expenses; or
c. does not exceed the actual expenses for
					 which the reimbursement was paid;
33. relocation assistance income if received
					 under title II of the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property
					 Acquisitions Policies Act of 1970;
34. Senior Community Service Employment
					 Program (SCSEP) income received by individuals 55 or older;
35. supplemental security income that is
					 being recouped for non-fraud SSI overpayment;
36. unemployment compensation benefits that
					 are paid as the result of unemployment due to a major disaster and funded
					 through the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance
					 Act;
37. vendor payments made by a
					 person or organization outside the household/assistance unit directly to the
					 client's creditor or to a person or organization providing the service unless:
a. the vendor payment is made by an employer
					 instead of all or part of the salary;
b. it is a local GA vendor payment provided
					 to cover housing expenses exclusive of energy or utility expenses; or
c. the vendor payment is made in lieu of
					 payments which are legally obligated to the household;
38. severance pay received in a single
					 lump-sum payment;
39. payments made
					 through the wartime relocation of civilians law:
a. payments of $20,000 made to eligible
					 persons of Japanese ancestry who were interned during World War II, or such
					 payments made to the spouse, children or parents if the eligible individual is
					 deceased;
b. payments of $12,000
					 made to eligible Aleuts who were relocated from their home on the Pribol of or
					 Aleutian Islands to an internment camp during World War II, or such payments
					 made to an individual who was born while his mother was relocated;
40. effective March 1, 2006,
					 dividend income;
Exception: Dividends received from a resource-exempt
						trust fund will not be excluded as income.
41. effective March 1, 2006, interest
					 income;
42. effective March 1,
					 2006, education assistance;
43. 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
44. grant-funded research payments.