Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SYSTEM › Title 472 - THE DISABLED PERSONS AND FAMILY SUPPORT PROGRAM › Chapter 2 - APPLICATION AND ELIGIBILITY › Section 472-2-004 - Financial Eligibility

Current through June 17, 2024
The Department shall not provide support under this program to
	 individuals or families whose total gross monthly income exceeds Nebraska's
	 1989 median family income, adjusted for size as follows:
Family Size
Gross Monthly Income
1
$1,364
2
1,784
3
2,203
4
2,623
5
3,043
6
3,463
7
3,541
8
3,620
9 or more
3,699
004.01
Sources
  of Income
Department staff shall consider the following sources of income in
	 determining gross monthly income:
1.
  Aid to Dependent Children (ADC);
2.
  Supplemental Security Income (SSI);
3. State Supplemental Payment;
4. Gross wages/salary - total money earnings
  received for work as an employee, including wages, salary, armed forces pay,
  earnings through a work incentive program, work study, VISTA, commissions,
  tips, piece rate payments, and cash bonuses earned
before
deductions are made for taxes, bonds, pensions,
  union dues, and similar purposes;
5. In-kind income received in lieu of
  wages;
6. Job Training Partnership
  Act funds considered as employment;
7. Social Security or Railroad Retirement -
  pensions, survivor's benefits, and permanent disability insurance payments made
  by the Social Security Administration or Railroad Retirement Board (consider
  amount before deductions for medical insurance);
8. Dividends - includes dividends from stock
  holdings or membership in associations;
9. Interest - on savings or bonds, averaged
  over the period earned;
10. Earned
  income credit (EIC) and advanced earned income credit (AEIC);
11. Estates;
12. Trust funds;
13. Rentals- net income from rental of a
  house, store or other property;
14.
  Land lease income;
15. Boarders -
  net payments from boarders or lodgers (if self-employed, see item
  29);
16. Royalties - net
  royalties;
17. Retirement pensions
  - retirement or pension benefits paid to a retired person or his/her survivors
  by a former employer or by a union, either directly or through an insurance
  company;
18. Veteran's pensions -
  money paid by the Veteran's Administration to disabled members of the armed
  forces or to survivors of deceased veterans, subsistence allowances paid to
  veterans for education and on-the-job training, and "refunds" paid to
  ex-servicemen as G.I. insurance premiums;
19. Military allotments;
20. Picket or strike pay;
21. Green Thumb income;
22. Contributions;
23. Lump sum payments, e.g., child support or
  Social Security;
24. Annuities -
  annuities or insurance;
25.
  Unemployment compensation - compensation received from government insurance
  agencies or private companies during periods of unemployment;
26. Workers' compensation - compensation
  received from private or public insurance companies for injuries incurred at
  work;
27. Court-order alimony and
  child support (i.e., cash or direct or indirect payments made on behalf of the
  family);
28. Net income from farm
  self-employment - gross income minus operating expenses from the operation of a
  farm received by a client as an owner, renter, or sharecropper. Gross income
  includes the value of all products sold, government crop loans, money received
  from the rental of farm equipment to others, and incidental receipts from the
  sale of wood, sand, gravel, and similar items. Operating expenses include cost
  of feed, fertilizer, seed, and other farming supplies, cash wages paid to
  farmhands, depreciation charges, cash rent, interest on farm mortgages, farm
  building repairs, farm taxes (not state and federal income taxes), and similar
  expenses. The value of fuel, food, or other farm products used for family
  living is not included as part of net income; and
29. Net income from nonfarm self-employment -
  gross income minus expenses from one's own business, professional enterprise,
  or partnership. Gross income includes the value of all goods sold and services
  rendered. Expenses include costs of goods purchased, rent, heat, light, power,
  depreciation charges, wages and salaries paid, business taxes (not personal
  income taxes), and similar costs. The value of salable merchandise consumed by
  the proprietors of retail stores is not included as part of net income.
The applicant shall submit all required income
	 verification.