Resources - Excluded by Federal Law

Revised March 25, 2011

• Child Nutrition Act for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) including day care and school lunch programs (PL 89-642)

• Reimbursement from the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Act of 1970 (PL 91-646)

• Payments from the Domestic Volunteer Services Act of 1973 (PL 93-113)

• Disaster or emergency payments under the Disaster Relief Act of 1974 (PL 93-288) from:

  • Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA);

  • States or local governments: or

  • Disaster assistance organizations.

• Disaster Assistance Payments to farmers under the Disaster Relief Act of 1974 (PL 93-288 as amended by 100-387)

• Home energy assistance payments under the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act (PL 99-425)

• Housing and Urban Development (HUD) community development block grant funds

• Title IV financial assistance other than room, board, and dependent care provided by the Higher Education Act (PL 99-498 as amended by 100-50)

• Restitution payments under the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 to certain Asian Americans and Aleuts interned during World War II (PL 100-383)

• Yearly disability payments to veterans or lump sum payments to survivors of a deceased veteran retroactive to 1/1/89 from the Agent Orange Settlement Fund (PL 101-201). These are different funds than those from the Agent Orange Act of 1991, which are not excluded (PL 102-4).

• Payments received by an injured person, the surviving spouse, children, grandchildren, or grand parents under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (PL 101-426)

• Payments to Victims of Nazi Persecution (PL 103-286)

• Payments to crime victims from a federal or federally funded state or local program including Washington State Crime Victims Compensation Program (PL 103-322, section 23022)

Native American Resources

• All compensation including cash, stock, partnership interest, land, and interest in land under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (PL 92-203 & 100-241)

• Funds held in trust, restricted lands and the first $2,000 of each per capita judgment award (PL 93-134 as amended by 97-458, 98-64 & 103-66)

• Relocation assistance payments to members of the Navajo and Hopi Tribes (PL 93-531, section 22)

• Payments to certain Indian tribal members, regarding submarginal land held in trust by the U.S. (PL 94-114). Call State Office for a list of affected tribes

• Funds distributed per capita or held in trust under the Sac and Fox Indian Claims Agreement (PL 94-189)

• Payments from the disposition of funds to the Grand River Band of Ottowa Indians (PL 94-540)

• Payments to the Confederate Tribe of the Yakima Indian Nation and the Apache Tribe from the Indian Claims Commission (PL 95-433)

• Payments under the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980 (PL 96-420)

• Payments and certain funds held in trust for Chippewa Indians (PL 97-403, 98-102, 99-146, 99-264, 99-346, & 99-377)

• Payments under the Puyallup Tribe of Indians Settlement Act of 1989 (PL 101-41) as follows:

  •  Annuity fund established by PL 101-41 made to a Puyallup Tribal member upon reaching age 21;

  • Payments made to a Puyallup tribe member from the trust fund established by PL 101-41

• Payments to the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation Grand Coulee Dam Settlement Act (PL 103-436) including:

  • Real or personal property purchased directly with such funds; and

  • Appreciation in value of the initial investment.

• Payments to the Blackfeet, Gros Ventre, and Assiniboine tribes, Montana; and the Papag, Arizona (PL 97-408 & 98-124)

• Per capita shares to heirs of $2,000 or less under the Old Age Assistance Claims Settlement Act (PL 98-500)

• Financial assistance provided by the Bureau of Indian Affairs under the Higher Education Act (PL 99-498 as amended by 100-50)

• Loans provided under the Tribal Development Student Assistance Revolving Loan Program of the Higher Education Act (PL 99-498 as amended by 102-325). These payments are counted for SSI-related medical.

• Payments under the Seneca Nation Settlement Act (PL 101-503)