|
Income Type
|
Cash Assistance & Medical
|
Basic Food
|
SSI-Related Medical
|
|
Adoption Support *
|
Excluded
|
Unearned
|
Excluded
|
|
Adult family home
|
See WAC 388-450-0080
|
|
Advance on wages (draws)
|
Earned
|
|
Agent Orange Act of 1991
|
Excluded
|
Unearned - Monthly payments
Lump sum - See LUMP SUM PAYMENTS
|
|
|
Agent Orange disability payments, PL 101-201
|
Excluded
|
|
|
Alaska Permanent Fund distributions
|
Unearned
|
|
|
Alimony or spousal maintenance
|
Excluded - When client receives TANF/SFA and payment is included with child support order
Unearned - All other payments
|
Unearned
|
|
AmeriCorps income
|
Excluded See WAC388-450-0045
|
|
AmeriCorps VISTA or Vista income
(NOTE: This is not the same as AmeriCorps only - See above)
|
Excluded
|
Excluded: If the VISTA volunteer received Basic Food or cash benefits when they joined the VISTA program,
Earned: If the person was a VISTA volunteer when they applied for benefits.
See WAC 388-450-0045
|
Excluded
|
|
Annuity
|
Unearned
|
|
Assistance from other agencies and organizations
|
See WAC 388-450-0055
|
|
Austrian General Social Insurance Act payments under section 500 through 506
|
Excluded
|
Unearned - Interest received on these payments
|
|
Income Type
|
Cash Assistance & Medical Programs for Children, Pregnant Women, and Families
|
Basic Food
|
SSI-Related Medical
|
|
Back child support
|
See Child Support in this table.
|
|
Blood or plasma sales
|
See WAC 388-450-0080
|
|
Bona fide loans: *
|
Excluded
|
|
Bonus
|
Earned - When received as an employee
Unearned - When received on an ongoing basis after employment has terminated
See LUMP SUM PAYMENTS - When received as one-time-payment after employment has terminated
|
Earned - Incentive bonus based on employee performance -
Unearned - All other bonus
|
|
Bureau of Indian Affairs General Assistance *
|
Unearned
|
|
Burial fund increase
|
Excluded - See RESOURCES
|
Excluded
|
|
Income Type
|
Cash Assistance & Medical Programs for Children, Pregnant Women, and Families
|
Basic Food
|
SSI-Related Medical
|
|
Cash benefits reduced as a result of sanction or non-cooperation
|
N/A
|
Unearned
|
|
|
Cash payments from government, public, or private medical or social service agency
|
See specific income type
|
Excluded
|
|
Cash prizes, awards. lottery winnings
|
See LUMP SUM PAYMENTS
|
Unearned
|
|
CEAP
|
N/A
|
Excluded
|
|
|
CEAP - For TANF/SFA households terminated while in WorkFirst sanction within the last six months.
(NCS termination) *
|
Unearned - TANF/SFA
|
Excluded
|
|
|
Census Bureau wages:
- Earnings from temporary work for the 2010 census
- Earnings from permanent census employment
|
Excluded
Earned Income
|
Excluded
Earned Income
|
Excluded
Earned Income
|
|
Charitable cash donations*
|
See WAC 388-450-0055
|
|
|
|
Child support received by the client
Child support matrix
|
Excluded - TANF/SFA recipients
Unearned - Non-TANF/SFA
|
Unearned
|
|
Unearned - TANF/SFA applicant that received payment before benefits are opened
|
Unearned - SSI child (regardless of TANF/SFA status)
Unearned - Tribal TANF child support pass-through payment
|
|
|
Child Support pass-through payments
|
Excluded - TANF/SFA recipients
|
Unearned
|
Refer to WAC 388-475-0820
|
|
Child support (legally obligated) paid by the client
|
Disregarded - See INCOME - Allocation and Deeming
|
Amount paid by client is excluded as income - See WAC 388-450-0015
|
|
|
Civil liberties payments, PL 100-383. Restitution payments made under the Wartime Relocation of Civilian's Act
|
Excluded
|
|
COLA increases in Title II SSA beneficial
|
Unearned
|
Excluded
|
|
Combat Veteran Program Funds
|
Excluded
|
|
|
Combat Pay * – Special Pay while serving in a combat zone.
|
Excluded
Increased amount paid to assistance unit while service member is deployed to a combat zone.
|
|
|
Court Ordered Payments other than Child Support *
|
Lump-Sum Payment
Amount paid as a one-time payment
Unearned
Amount paid in multiple (more than one) payments
|
|
|
Crime Victims Compensation Funds funded under PL 103-322 (Whether ran by state or federal program.)
|
Excluded
|
|
Crime Victims Compensation (State-funded benefit through L&I)
|
Unearned - Amount paid to replace lost wages
Reimbursement* - See Reimbursements in this table
|
|
|
Income Type
|
Cash Assistance & Medical Programs for Children, Pregnant Women, and Families
|
Basic Food
|
SSI-Related Medical
|
|
Deemed income from an alien's sponsor
|
Unearned – See WAC 388-450-0155, WAC 388-450-0156 and WAC 388-450-0160
|
|
Disaster assistance to farmers when authorized under the Secretary of Agriculture under PL 100-387
|
Excluded
|
|
Disaster relief & emergency assistance under PL 93-288, amended by PL 100-707 *
|
Excluded
|
|
Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA)
|
Excluded
|
|
Diversion Cash Assistance (DCA)
|
N/A
|
Excluded - See LUMP SUM PAYMENTS
|
|
|
Dividends or Interest *
|
Unearned
|
|
Drug (illicit) sales
|
Earned - Minus self-employment expenses
|
|
|
Income Type
|
Cash Assistance & Medical Programs for Children, Pregnant Women, and Families
|
Basic Food
|
SSI-Related Medical
|
|
Earned income of a child
|
See WAC 388-450-0070
|
|
Earned income incentives and disregards for cash assistance
|
See WAC 388-450-0170 TANF/SFA earned income incentive and deduction
See WAC 388-450-0175 GA-U earned income incentive and deduction
N/A Food Assistance
|
|
Earned Income In-Kind * (working in exchange for rent, vehicle, TV)
|
Earned
|
Excluded
Earned - If available income was diverted to in-kind income
|
Earned
|
|
Earned Income of an ineligible or non-applying person under 21 years of age, when this person is a student
|
N/A
|
Earned - If the person is included in the AU or their income must be budgeted against the assistance
|
Excluded
|
|
Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)*
|
Excluded - See RESOURCES
|
|
Economic Opportunity Act
|
Earned
|
|
Educational Assistance - Opportunity Grants
|
Excluded
|
|
Educational benefits
|
See WAC 388-450-0035
|
|
Egg or sperm donation
|
See WAC 388-450-0080
|
|
Emergency Additional Requirement Payments authorized to TANF/SFA and RCA clients
|
N/A
|
Excluded - When paid to a Third Party
Unearned - When paid directly to the client
|
|
|
Employment or training programs income
|
See WAC 388-450-0045
|
|
Energy assistance payments (LIHEAP)
|
Excluded
|
|
Income Type
|
Cash Assistance & Medical Programs for Children, Pregnant Women, and Families
|
Basic Food
|
SSI-Related Medical
|
|
Fellowships with work requirements
|
Earned
|
|
|
First $20 per month of a client's earned or unearned income
|
N/A
|
Excluded
|
|
First $65 per month of a client's earned income, plus one-half of remainder
|
N/A
|
Excluded
|
|
Flexible benefits *
|
Earned. - When client has option to cash out. (Count the amount client can receive as cash whether or not they choose to receive the benefit in cash.) See INCOME - Ownership and Availability
|
|
|
Food benefits under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (includes tribal commodities)
|
Excluded
|
N/A
Persons cannot receive Basic Food and commodities through the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR) at the same time.
|
Excluded
|
|
Food Service Program for Children under the National School Lunch Act of 1966, PL 92-433 and 93-150
|
Excluded
|
|
|
Foster Care maintenance payments *
|
Excluded
|
Unearned - When child is in AU
Excluded - When child is not in AU
|
|
Foster care retainer fees
|
Earned
|
Unearned
|
Earned
|
|
Foster Grandparents Program under Title II of P.L. 93-113
|
Excluded
|
|
Funds for shared household costs *
|
Excluded
|
|
Income Type
|
Cash Assistance & Medical Programs for Children, Pregnant Women, and Families
|
Basic Food
|
SSI-Related Medical
|
|
Gambling winnings
|
Unearned
|
|
Gate money from adult corrections
|
Unearned
|
Excluded - See LUMP SUM PAYMENTS
|
|
|
Gift Cards
|
Excluded
|
|
Gifts
|
See WAC 388-450-0065
|
|
Gifts to Children with life-threatening conditions, PL 105-306
|
N/A
|
|
| Health Profession Opportunity Grant (HPOG) funds |
Excluded
|
|
HUD Community Development block grant funds
|
Excluded
|
|
HUD rental and/or utility subsidies under Section 8 of the housing act
|
Excluded
|
|
Income Type
|
Cash Assistance & Medical Programs for Children, Pregnant Women, and Families
|
Basic Food
|
SSI-Related Medical
|
|
Income a client's ineligible or non-applying spouse receives from a government agency (such as CHORE services)
|
See specific income type
|
Excluded
|
|
Income specifically excluded from being counted as income under federal law
|
Excluded
|
|
Income Tax refund
|
Excluded
|
|
Income used for the cost of producing self-employment income
|
See WAC 388-450-0080
|
|
Income which causes a client to lose SSI eligibility due solely to the reduction in the state supplement (SSP ) *
|
See specific income type
|
Excluded
|
|
Individual & Family Grant Program payments
|
N/A
|
Excluded
|
|
Infrequent or irregular income*
|
Excluded - Up to $30 per quarter
|
Excluded - Up to $30 per quarter
Unearned - Entire amount if greater than $30.
|
Excluded - Up to $10 earned per quarter
Excluded - Up to $20 unearned per quarter
|
|
Insurance settlements
|
Excluded - See LUMP SUM PAYMENTS
|
|
|
Interest received on repayments made to the client
|
Unearned
|
|
Investment income
|
Unearned
|
|
Income Type
|
Cash Assistance & Medical Programs for Children, Pregnant Women, and Families
|
Basic Food
|
SSI-Related Medical
|
|
Job Corps income (under WIA)
|
See WAC 388-450-0045
|
|
Joint bank accounts *
|
Unearned - If client withdraws more than their share of the money
|
|
JTPA Income
|
See WAC 388-450-0045
|
|
Jury duty income
|
Excluded
|
Excluded - Reimbursement
Earned - Daily pay over a period of time
One-Time-Payment - See Infrequent or irregular income in this chart
|
Unearned
|
|
Life estate income
|
Unearned
|
|
Loan repayments made to clients (principal only)
|
Excluded
|
|
Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act (LIHEAA) under P.L. 99-425
|
Excluded
|
|
Lump Sum Payments
|
See WAC 388-455-0015
|
Excluded
Unearned - If a cash gift, See WAC 388-450-0065 Gifts - Cash and noncash
|
|
|
Income Type
|
Cash Assistance & Medical Programs for Children, Pregnant Women, and Families
|
Basic Food
|
SSI-Related Medical
|
|
Maternity leave pay (client still employed)
|
Earned
|
|
Meals
|
Disregarded - When provided by employer at no charge
Earned - When deducted from paycheck by employer
|
Earned - When received in lieu of wages
|
|
Military pay *
|
Earned
|
|
Money excluded by the Social Security Administration (SSA) in a Plan for Achieving Self-Support (PASS) Under PL 102-237
|
Excluded
|
|
|
Money received for an absent or non household member *
|
Excluded
Unearned - Any portion retained by the AU
|
|
|
Money withheld for repayment *
|
Excluded
|
Unearned - For intentional non-compliance with federal or state means-tested program overpayments
Excluded - All other overpayments
|
|
|
Montgomery G I Bill
|
See WAC 388-450-0035 #5.
|
|
Monthly allowances paid to children of Vietnam Veterans who are born with birth defects, PL 106-419, PL 104-204
|
Excluded
|
|
|
Native American benefits & payments
|
See WAC 388-450-0040
|
|
Nutrition Assistance Program (NAP) benefits from Puerto Rico, American Samoa, or Northern Mariana Islands
|
Excluded
|
Excluded
|
Excluded
|
|
Income Type
|
Cash Assistance & Medical Programs for Children, Pregnant Women, and Families
|
Basic Food
|
SSI-Related Medical
|
|
Ongoing Additional Requirements *
|
Excluded
|
Excluded - Amount for service animal food
Unearned - All other ongoing additional requirements
|
|
|
On-the-job training wages
|
See WAC 388-450-0045
|
|
Opportunity Grants
|
Excluded
|
|
Panhandling
|
Unearned
|
|
|
PASS income is money excluded by the Social Security Administration (SSA) in a Plan for Achieving Self-Support (PASS) Under PL 102-237
|
Excluded
|
|
Payments under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 P.L. 89-642
|
Excluded
|
|
Payments form the Dutch Government, under the Netherlands ' Act on Benefits for Victims of Persecution (WUV)
|
Excluded
|
Excluded
Unearned - Interest earned on these payments
|
|
Payments under the Federal Republic of Germany 's Law for Compensation of National Socialist Persecution or German Restitution Act
|
Excluded
|
Excluded
Unearned - Interest earned on these payments
|
|
Payments Under the Filipino Veterans Equity Compensation Fund
(Division A, Title X, Section 1002 of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 ARRA)
|
Excluded
|
|
Payments to persons age 55 and older under the Senior Community Services Employment Program (SCSEP) under Title V of the Older Americans Act of 1987.
|
Excluded
|
Earned income if paid as a wage or salary
Excluded – if reimbursement of expenses or payment for services such as education, clothing or transportation.
|
|
Pensions
|
Unearned
|
|
Prostitution
|
Earned - Minus self-employment expenses
|
|
|
Public assistance (including tribal TANF)
|
Unearned
|
|
Income Type
|
Cash Assistance & Medical Programs for Children, Pregnant Women, and Families
|
Basic Food
|
SSI-Related Medical
|
|
Radiation exposure compensation, under PL 101-426 and PL 106-398 Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Act (EEOICA) 2000.
|
Excluded
|
|
Railroad Retirement Benefits (RRB)
|
Unearned
|
|
Real estate / mortgage sales and contracts *
|
Contract - See RESOURCES
Unearned - Payments from contract
|
Unearned
|
|
Re-Employ Washington Workers (RWW) cash incentive
|
N/A
|
Unearned
|
N/A
|
|
Refund by any public agency of taxes paid on real property or on food
|
N/A
|
Excluded
|
|
Reimbursements *
|
Excluded
Unearned - Amounts in Excess of expenses
Earned - Amounts in Excess of expenses when paid by employer
|
Excluded
Unearned - Amounts that cover normal living expenses
|
|
|
Rental or lease property income
|
SeeWAC 388-450-0080
|
|
|
|
Representative payee fees
|
N/A
|
Excluded - When set up by SSA for SSI / SSDI recipients
- Must not exceed the lesser of 10% of the monthly payment or $33.
- Alcohol or drug payee fees must not exceed the lesser of 10% or $64.
SSA periodically adjusts the fees that a payee may charge for persons who receive SSI or SSD
Unearned - For all others
|
Excluded
|
|
Residuals
|
Earned
|
|
|
Retirement
|
Unearned
|
|
Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) under Title II of P.L. 93-113
|
Excluded
|
|
|
Retroactive benefits (SSA, SSI, PA, UC, and VA)
|
Excluded - See LUMP SUM PAYMENTS
|
Excluded
|
|
Retroactive WCCC payments
|
Excluded
|
Excluded - See RESOURCES
|
|
|
Reverse mortgage
|
Excluded
|
|
Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Act of 1998
|
Unearned
|
Excluded
Unearned - Interest earned on these payments
|
Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Act of 1998
|
|
Room and board income *
|
See WAC 388-450-0080
|
|
Royalties
|
Unearned
|
Earned
|
|
Income Type
|
Cash Assistance & Medical Programs for Children, Pregnant Women, and Families
|
Basic Food
|
SSI-Related Medical
|
|
Savings bond interest
|
Unearned
|
|
Securities income
|
Unearned
|
|
Security deposit refunds
|
Excluded
See RESOURCES
|
Disregarded
|
|
Self-employment income
|
See WAC 388-450-0080 and WAC 388-450-0085
|
|
|
Self-employment income normally allowed as an income deductions by the IRS
|
Excluded
|
|
|
|
Senior Companion Program under Title II of P.L. 93-113
|
Excluded
|
|
Settlements
|
See LUMP SUM PAYMENTS
|
|
|
Shared leave
|
Earned
|
|
Sick leave pay (client still employed)
|
Earned
|
|
SSDI
|
Unearned
|
|
SSI
|
Excluded
|
Unearned
|
|
SSI-related client's income to meet the needs of ineligible minor child
|
See specific income type
|
Excluded
|
|
SSI Income or State Supplement Payment (SSP)
|
Excluded
|
Unearned
|
Excluded
|
|
Strike benefits
|
Unearned
|
|
|
Strike benefits for picket duty
|
Earned
|
Unearned
|
|
|
Student loans
|
See WAC 388-450-0035
|
|
Summer youth employment or training programs
|
Earned
|
Excluded
|
|
|
Support payment on behalf of a household member (paid directly to a third party)
|
See Vendor Payment in Worker Responsibilities
|
Excluded
|
|
Surrogate mother services
|
Earned - Minus self-employment expenses
|
Earned - Minus self-employment expenses and amounts that are a reimbursement for expenses.
|
|
|
Susan Walker v. Bayer Corporation, settlement funds
|
N/A
|
Unearned - Monthly Payment
Lump Sum - See LUMP SUM PAYMENTS
|
Excluded
Unearned - Interest earned on these payments
|
|
Income Type
|
Cash Assistance & Medical Programs for Children, Pregnant Women, and Families
|
Basic Food
|
SSI-Related Medical
|
|
Tax rebates or special payments excluded under other laws
|
Excluded
|
|
Time loss compensation
|
Unearned See WAC 388-450-0010
|
|
Tips
|
Earned
|
Unearned - Under $20
Earned - Over $20
|
|
Title I, II, III of the Domestic Volunteer Act of 1973, PL 93-113 - Including VISTA
|
See WAC 388-450-0045
|
|
Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
|
Earned
|
|
|
Title I of the National & Community Service Act of 1993 (NCSA) (includes AmeriCorps Programs & Higher Education Service - Learning Program)
|
See WAC 388-450-0045
|
|
Training allowances for GA-U clients
|
See WAC 388-450-0045
|
|
Training allowances from vocational and rehabilitation programs
|
See WAC 388-450-0045
|
|
Travel advances
|
Earned - If a contract exists
Earned - Minus expenses if no contract exists
|
|
|
Unearned income in-kind (supplied)
|
Excluded
|
Unearned
|
|
Unemployment Compensation (UC) - before deductions
|
Unearned*
*Note: Federal UC stimulus payments made under the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) and the Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act of 2009 are disregarded when computing benefits for all programs.
|
|
Uniform Relocation Assistance & Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970, PL 94-646, section 218*
|
Excluded
|
|
|
Income Type
|
Cash Assistance & Medical Programs for Children, Pregnant Women, and Families
|
Basic Food
|
SSI-Related Medical
|
|
Vacation pay
|
Earned
|
Earned - If still employed
If employment terminated:
Excluded - Lump sum
Unearned - More than one payment
|
|
|
Vendor payments *
|
Excluded
|
|
Veteran Administration benefits (service connected compensation or improved pension)
|
Unearned
|
Unearned
See Clarifying Information below WAC 388-475-0840. |
|
Veteran's benefits designated for the veteran's dependent
|
Unearned
|
Excluded to the individual
Countable income to the dependent/spouse
|
|
Veteran's benefits designated as aid and attendance or housebound allowance
|
Unearned
|
Excluded
|
|
Veteran's benefits designated as Unusual Medical Expenses (UME)
|
Unearned
|
Excluded
|
|
Victims of Nazi Persecution payments under P.L. 103-286
|
Excluded
|
|
VOLAG – One time payments
|
Excluded
|
|
|
VOLAG – Ongoing payments including Matching Grant Program
|
Unearned Counted as assistance from another agency or organization under WAC 388-450-0055.
|
|
Wages, salaries, commissions, profits
|
Earned
|
|
Witness pay
|
Excluded - See WAC 388-450-0055
|
Excluded - Reimbursement
Earned - Daily pay over a period of time
On-time-payment - See Infrequent or irregular income
|
|
|
Women, Infants & Children benefits (WIC)
|
Excluded
|
|
Work experience wages from Employment Security Department
|
See WAC 388-450-0045
|
|
WorkFirst Supportive Service payments
|
See WAC 388-450-0045
|
|
WorkFirst Career Services benefits
See WAC 388-310-2100 for further program details.
See ACES User Manual for information on ACES procedures and coding.
|
Excluded for Transitional Medical Assistance (F02)
Unearned for cash assistance
|
Excluded for TFA
Unearned for Basic Food
|
Unearned
|
|
WorkForce Training Funds - Training Completion (TECA)
|
See WAC 388-450-0055
|
Unearned - May be reduced by educational expenses
|
|
|
Work related expenses
|
N/A
|
Excluded - If impairment related
|
|
Work study
|
See WAC 388-450-0035
|
