Federally Mandated Exclusions:

• Value of the allotment provided to an eligible household under the Food Stamp Act of 1977

• Payments to Volunteers under the Domestic

• Volunteer Services Act of 1973

• Payments received under the Alaska Native Claims

• Settlement Act

• Income derived from certain submarginal land of the US that is held in trust for certain Indian Tribes

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• Payments or allowances made under the Department of Health and Human Services’ Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program

• Payments received under programs funded in whole or in part under the Job Training Partnership Act

• Income derived from the disposition of funds to the Grand River Band of Ottawa Indians

• The first $2000 of per capita shares received from judgment funds awarded by the Indian Claims Commission or the US. Claims Court, the interests of individual Indians in trust or restricted lands, including the first $2000 per year of income received by individual Indians from funds derived from interests held in such trust or restricted lands

• Payments received from programs funded under Title V of the Older Americans Act of 1985

• Payments received on or after January 1, 1989, from the Agent Orange Settlement Fund or any other fund established pursuant to the settlement in In Re Agent- product liability litigation

• Payments received under the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980

• The value of any child care provided or arranged (or any amount received as payment for such care or reimbursement for costs incurred for such care) under the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990

• Earned income tax credit (EITC) refund payments on or after January 1, 1991

• Payments by the Indian Claims Commission to the Confederated Tribes and Bands of Yakima Indian Nation or the Apache Tribe of Mescalero Reservation

• Allowance, earnings and payments to AmeriCorps participants under the National and Community Service Act of 1990

• Any allowance paid under the provisions of 38U.S.C. 1805 to a child suffering from spina bifida who is the child of a Vietnam veteran

• Any amount of crime victim compensation (under the Victims of Crime Act) received through crime victim assistance (or payment or reimbursement of the cost of such assistance) as determined under the Victims of Crime Act because of the commission of a crime against the applicant under the Victims of Crime Act