Exclude the following federal payments for all programs:

●	Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) payments.
●	Payments for tribal land claim settlements listed in 0017.15.09 (Income From Tribal Land).
●	Benefits from the Women, Infant, and Children (WIC) nutrition program.
●	Reimbursements from the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policy Act of 1970. See 0015.27 (Excluded Assets - Income) for treatment of relocation assistance from state or local governments.
●	Payments received from youth incentive entitlement projects, youth community conservation and improvement projects.
●	Reparation payments to Aleut people and people of Japanese ancestry under Public Law 100-383.
●	Agent Orange payments to veterans and their dependents.
●	Payments made under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (Public Law 101-426).
●	Payments made by federal agencies under a presidential declaration of disaster including, but not limited to, individual and family grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). See 0015.27 (Excluded Assets - Income) for other disaster payments which may be excluded.
●	Payments made under the Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Act of 1998, to or on behalf of people who contracted Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) through the use of contaminated blood-clotting products administered during the period of 7-1-82 through 12-31-87. The last date for people to file petitions for these payments is 11-13-01. Payments under this Act began in August 2000 and will continue to be paid until the current and future appropriations are exhausted, with the last payment being made no later than 11-11-03. This also applies to payments made pursuant to private class action settlement agreements.
●	Funds, including accrued interest, deposited in Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) through The Family Assets for Independence in Minnesota (FAIM) Program.

EXCEPTION:

Payments made to American Indians under Cobell v Salazar (Public Law 111-291) are excluded for 1 year from the date of receipt. Count payments as an asset after this 1 year period expires. See 0017.15.09 (Income From Tribal Land).

MFIP, DWP:
Exclude the funds listed in the general provisions as long as the client holds them in a separate account from any non-excluded funds.

Exclude all benefits and payments received by participants in all AmeriCorps programs. For more information on AmeriCorps programs, see 0017.15.78 (National and Community Service Trust Act), 0017.15.87 (AmeriCorps Payments).

Exclude all benefits and payments provided by Senior Corps and Learn and Serve America payments as an asset. For more information, see 0017.15.78 (National and Community Service Trust Act), 0017.15.100 (Learn and Serve America).

See 0017.15.87 (AmeriCorps Payments) for information on how to treat the income of civil service employees.

Exclude Title VII, Nutrition Program for the Elderly funds.

Exclude VA benefits awarded to children of Vietnam veterans, regardless of their age or marital status, for a covered birth defect identified by the VA as associated with the service of these veterans who served in the Republic of Vietnam from 2-28-61 through 5-7-75 and performed active military service.


SNAP:
Exclude the funds listed in the general provisions for the entire time the client holds them in a separate account from any non-excluded funds. If the client combines excluded funds with non-excluded funds, continue the exclusion for 6 months from the date the client combines the funds.

Also exclude AmeriCorps VISTA (formerly known as VISTA) payments to volunteers (not permanent staff salaries) if the volunteers were AFDC (when AFDC existed), SSI, or SNAP participants before they joined VISTA.

Exclude earned income credits received before 1-1-80 as a result of Public Law 95-600. See 0015.27 (Excluded Assets - Income) for information on current earned income credits.

Exclude VA benefits awarded to children of Vietnam veterans, regardless of their age or marital status, for a covered birth defect identified by the VA as associated with the service of these veterans who served in the Republic of Vietnam from 2-28-61 through 5-7-75 and performed active military service.


MSA:
Exclude the funds listed in the general provisions as long as the client holds them in a separate account from non-excluded funds.

Also exclude AmeriCorps VISTA (formerly known as VISTA) payments made to volunteers (not permanent staff salaries) as long as the client holds them in a separate account from non-excluded funds.


GA:
Exclude the funds listed in the general provisions as long as the client holds them in a separate account from any non-excluded funds.

Also exclude AmeriCorps (formerly known as VISTA) educational awards made to volunteers (not permanent staff salaries) for grants, scholarships and fellowships if the client holds them in a separate account from non-excluded funds.

Exclude Title VII Nutrition Program for the Elderly funds.


GRH:
Follow MSA for aged, blind, or disabled clients. Follow GA for all other adults.