North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 10A - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES › Chapter 97 - ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY › Subchapter C - COMMUNITY SERVICES BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM › Section .0100 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 97C .0107 - ELIGIBLE PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
(a) The
				  official poverty guidelines established by the Director of the Office of
				  Management and Budget shall be used as a criteria of eligibility for all
				  services provided to program participants by grant recipients. "Services" is
				  defined as an act of assistance and/or direct benefit to a family unit. The
				  poverty guidelines are revised annually.
(b) For the purpose of determining
				  eligibility, the following definitions shall apply:
(1) Unrelated Individual. An unrelated
				  individual is a family unit of one if that individual is 15 years old or over
				  and not an inmate of an institution. An unrelated individual may be the sole
				  occupant of a housing unit, or may be residing in a housing unit (or group
				  quarters such as a rooming house) in which one or more persons also reside who
				  are not related to the individual in question by birth, marriage, and/or
				  adoption. (Examples of unrelated individuals residing with others include a
				  lodger, a foster child, a ward, or an employee.)
(2) Family. A family unit of two or more
				  persons related by birth, marriage, and/or adoption who reside together. All
				  such related persons are considered as members of one family. (If a household
				  includes more than one unrelated individual, the poverty guidelines are applied
				  separately to each family and/or unrelated individual, and not to the household
				  as a whole. If an unrelated individual lives with a family, the poverty
				  guidelines are applied separately to each family unit.)
(3) Income. Refers to total cash receipts
				  before taxes from all sources. These include money wages and salaries before
				  any deductions, but do not include food or rent in lieu of wages. These
				  receipts include net receipts from nonfarm or farm self-employment (e.g.
				  receipts from own business or farm after deductions for business or farm
				  expenses). They include regular payments from public assistance (including
				  Supplemental Security Income), social security or railroad retirement,
				  unemployment and workers' compensation, strike benefits from union funds,
				  veterans' benefits, training stipends, allotments or other regular support from
				  an absent family member or someone not living in the household; private
				  pensions, government employee pensions, and regular insurance or annuity
				  payments; and income from dividends, interest, rents, royalties, or periodic
				  receipts from estates or trusts. For eligibility purposes, income does not
				  refer to the following money receipts: capital gains; any assets drawn down as
				  withdrawals from a bank, sale of property, house, or car; tax refunds, gifts,
				  lump-sum inheritances, one-time insurance payments, or compensation for injury.
				  Also excluded are non-cash benefits, such as employer-paid health insurance and
				  other employee fringe benefits, food or rent received in lieu of wages, the
				  value of food and fuel produced and consumed on farms, and the imputed value of
				  rent from owner occupied nonfarm or farm housing.