For purposes of this rule, patient
liability is calculated in the following order:
(2) Exclude
the following payments from the individual's gross monthly income:
(a) Payments to victims of Nazi
persecution.
(b) Austrian social
insurance payments based, in whole or in part, on wage credits received under
the provisions of the Austrian General Social Insurance Act, paragraphs 500
through 506 (as in effect on October 1, 20222024). These payments need to be documented and
identifiable separate from countable insurance.
(c) Payments from the Dutch government under
the Netherlands' Benefit Act for victims of persecution from 1940-1945 (Dutch
acronym, WUV) (
Pub. L. No. 103-286).
(d) Restitution payments under the Civil
Liberties Act of 1988, to U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry and permanent
resident Japanese non-citizens who were interned during World War II, or their
survivors, in accordance with
50 U.S.C.
4215 (as in effect October 1, 2022
2024).
(e)
Restitution payments under the Aleutian and Pribilof Island Restitution Act, in
accordance with 50 U.S.C.
4236 (as in effect October 1, 2022
2024).
(f)
Agent Orange settlement fund payments received on or after January 1, 1989, as
a result of the Agent Orange Compensation Exclusion Act (
Pub. L. No.
101-201).
(g) Department of defense payments to certain
persons captured and interned in North Vietnam, in accordance with the
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act of 1998 (
Pub. L. No.
105-78).
(h) Radiation exposure compensation trust
fund payments, in accordance with the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act of
1990 (
Pub. L. No. 101-426).
(i) Veterans affairs payments made to or on
behalf of:
(i) Certain Vietnam veterans'
natural children regardless of age or marital status, for any disability
resulting from spina bifida suffered by such children;
(ii) Certain Korea service veterans' natural
children, regardless of age or marital status, for any disability resulting
from spina bifida suffered by such children; and
(iii) The natural children, regardless of age
or marital status, with certain birth defects born to a woman who served in
Vietnam.
(j) Veterans
administration pensions, including payments for aid and attendance, up to the
amount of ninety dollars per month, paid to veterans or their surviving spouse,
if any, who are residing in a nursing facility or are receiving HCBS waiver
services. This exclusion applies to:
(i) A
veteran without a spouse or dependent minor or disabled child; and
(ii) A veteran's surviving spouse without a
dependent minor or disabled child.
(k) Payments made to Native Americans as
listed in section IV of 20 C.F.R.
416 Subpart K Appendix (as in effect October
1, 2022
2024).
(l) SSI benefits received under authority of
sections 1611(e)(1)(E) and (G) of the Social Security Act (as in effect October
1, 20222024) for institutionalized individuals
during the first three full months of institutionalization. The administrative
agency must not retroactively redetermine patient liability determinations,
made under the continued benefit provision, if the individual's actual stay
exceeds the expected stay of ninety days or less.
(m) Residential state supplement (RSS)
payments to institutionalized individuals, in accordance with rule
5160:1-5-01 of the
Administrative Code.
(n) Payments
from a state compensation fund for victims of crime.
(o) Payments made from any fund established
pursuant to a class action settlement in the case of "Factor VIII or IX
concentrate blood products litigation," MDL986, no. 93-C-7452 (N.D. Ill), per
section 4735 of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (
Pub. L. No.
105-33).
(p) Payments from the Ricky Ray Hemophilia
Fund Act of 1998 (
Pub. L. No. 105-369) or payments
made from any fund established pursuant to a class settlement in the case of
Susan Walker v. Bayer Corporation, 96-C-5024 (N.D. III).
(q) Payments made to individuals under the
Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000
(
Pub. L.
No. 106-398).
(r) Assistance (other than wages or salaries)
under the Older Americans Act of 1965 (Pub. L. No. 89-73).
(s) Student financial assistance received
under the Higher Education Act (HEA) of 1965 (as in effect October 1,
2024) or bureau of Indian affairs is excluded from
income, regardless of use:
(i) Pell
grants;
(ii) Student services
incentives;
(iii) Academic
achievement incentive scholarships;
(iv) Federal supplemental education
opportunity grants;
(v) Federal
educational loans (Stafford loans, William D. Ford federal direct and direct
PLUS loans, etc.);
(vi) Upward
bound;
(vii) Gear up (gaining early
awareness and readiness for undergraduate programs);
(viii) State educational assistance programs
funded by the leveraging educational assistance program; and
(ix) Work-study programs.
(t) Matching funds that are
deposited into individual development accounts (IDAs), either demonstration
project or TANF-funded, in accordance with
42 U.S.C.
604 (as in effect October 1,
2024).
(u)
Accounts under the Stephen Beck, Jr., Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE)
Act of 2014 (
Pub. L. No. 113-295). The
following are not considered income to the account holder:
(i) Contributions to an ABLE account by
another individual or third party.
(ii) Interest earned on an ABLE
account.
(iii) Distributions from
an ABLE account.
(v)
Federal and state foster care payments received under title IV-B or title IV- E
for a child currently living in the household.
(w) Federal or state adoption assistance
payments received under title IV-B or title IV-E.
(x) Payments received under the kinship
guardianship assistance program (KGAP), state KGAP, or kinship guardianship
assistance program connections to twenty-one (KGAP C21).
(y) Child care assistance under the Child
Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (
Pub. L. No.
113-186).
(z) Assistance or services received through
the domestic volunteer service under 42 U.S.C.
66 per
42 U.S.C.
5044(f) (as in effect
October 1, 2022
2024).
(aa) Payments made for supporting services or
reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses to volunteers participating in
corporation for national and community service (CNCS, formerly ACTION) programs
in accordance with 42 U.S.C.
1382a (as in effect October 1, 2022
2024):
(i)
AmeriCorps VISTA program;
(ii)
Special and demonstration volunteer program;
(iii) Retired senior volunteer program
(RSVP);
(iv) Foster grandparents
program; and
(v) Senior companion
program.
(bb) Assistance
or services received through federal food and nutrition programs:
(i) Supplemental nutrition assistance program
(SNAP);
(ii) The value of foods
donated by the U.S. department of agriculture commodity supplemental food
program;
(iii) The value of
supplemental food assistance received under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966
(Pub. L. No. 89-642) and the special food service program for children under
the National School Lunch Act (Pub. L. No. 90-302);
(iv) The special supplemental nutrition
program for women, infants, and children (WIC); and
(v) Nutrition program benefits provided for
the elderly under Title VII of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (Pub. L. No.
89-73).
(cc) Assistance
received under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance
Act (Pub. L. No. 100-707) and assistance provided under any federal statute
because of a presidentially-declared disaster.
(dd) Assistance, with respect to the dwelling
unit occupied by such individual (or such individual and spouse), under the
United States Housing Act of 1937 (Pub. L. No. 75-412), the National Housing
Act (Pub. L. No. 73-479), section 101 of the Housing and Urban Development Act
of 1965 (Pub. L. No. 89-117), title V of the Housing Act of 1949 (Pub. L. No.
81-171), or section 202(h) of the Housing Act of 1959 (Pub. L. No.
86-372).
(ee) Home energy
assistance provided on the basis of need, in accordance with
20 C.F.R.
416.1157 (as in effect on October 1, 2022
2024).
(ff) Relocation assistance provided under
title II of the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisitions
Policies Act of 1970 (Pub. L. No. 91-646) provided to individuals displaced by
or through any federal, federally-assisted, state, state-assisted, local, or
locally-assisted government project in the acquisition of real
property.
(gg) The first two
thousand dollars per calendar year received as compensation for participation
in clinical trials that meet the criteria detailed in section 1612(b) of the
Social Security Act (as in effect October 1, 20222024).