|
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
|
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 paid by the client
|
Disregarded - See INCOME - Allocation and Deeming
|
Disregarded - See WAC - 388-450-0185
|
|
|
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
|
|
|
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
|
See LUMP SUM PAYMENTS
|
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
|
|
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
|
See WAC 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 2008 (ARRA) are disregarded when computing benefits for the following medical programs:
|
FAMILY MEDICAL
|
SSI-RELATED MEDICAL
|
OTHER MEDICAL PROGRAMS
|
|
F02, F03, F04, F05, F06, F07, F09, F10, F99
Medical portion of F01
|
S01, S02, S03, S04, S05, S06, S07, S08, S30, S99, S95
|
C01, C04, C95, C99
D01, D02
G03, G95, G99
Medical portion of G02
I01
K01, K02, K03, K95, K99
L01, L02, L04, L95, L99
M99
P02, P04, P05, P06, P99
R02, R03
Medical Portion of R01
|
|
|
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 (VA)
|
Unearned
|
|
|
Veteran's benefits designated for the veteran's dependent or aid & attendance
|
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 WorkFirst Handbook 4.5 and 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
|
