INCOME ELIGIBILITY

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INCOME ELIGIBILITY Section 4 of Guidance Manual
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Determining Household Composition

• Economic Unit a group of related or unrelated
  individuals who are not residents of an
  institution or boarding house but who are living
  as one economic unit, and who share housing
  and/or significant income and expenses of its
  members.
• Separate economic units may reside in the same
  house when expenses are prorated and they are
  economically independent from one another.
• page 31

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Special situations

• Adopted child - member of household
• Child attending an institution member of
  household
• Child residing in an institution household of
  one
• pages 31-32

• Child away at school member of household
• Child living with one parent, relative or friends
  member of household
• Joint custody greatest benefit if both parents
  apply

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Special Situations

• Emancipated child household of one
• Foreign exchange student member of household
• Foster child household of one
• page 32

• Family members living apart
• Temporarily household members
• Extended period not included
• Deployed Service Personnel household members

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Reportable Income

• Earnings from work
• Welfare, child support, alimony
• Retirement/disability benefits

• Any other income
• Examples Net rental income, interest, cash
  withdrawn from savings, regular contributions
  from persons not living in the household
• page 33

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Current Income

• Current month
• Previous month
• Projected next month
• page 33

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Special Situations

• Seasonal workers projection or prior year
• Self-employed net current year or net prior
  year
• Wages and Self-employment must list separately

• Military benefits cash only
• Deployed service members money available to
  family
• Foster child only personal use income
• page 34

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Special Situations, cont.

• Child residing in RCCI income from full-time or
  regular part-time work
• Child in household income from full-time or
  regular part-time work

• Alimony and child support only money received
• Garnished wages and bankruptcy gross income
  before deductions
• pages 34-35

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Income Exclusions

• General
• Cash income or value of benefits excluded by
  statute (pages 36-37), i.e., value of SNAP
  benefits
• Foster children
• Educational grants scholarships
• Loans
• Value of in-kind compensation
• Occasional earnings

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Income Exclusions, cont.

• Military Benefits
• in-kind benefits, FSSA, privatized housing
  allowances
• www.acq.osd.mil/housing
• Institutionalized Child payments received on a
  childs behalf

• Child Infrequent earnings
• Lump sum payments not received on a regular
  basis
• page 36

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Questions

• If a child lives with his/her parents and is
  required to pay room and board, is the child
  emancipated?
• A court has declared a child living with his/her
  parents to be emancipated, can they fill out an
  application as a household of one?

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Activity

• Process the 15 applications provided
• Mark any that are error prone
• Note if any are incomplete and steps to take in
  order to process them