Kan. Admin. Regs. § 129-6-112

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 25, June 20, 2024

Section 129-6-112 - Income exempt from consideration as income and as a cash asset for MAGI-excepted groups

For those groups specified in K.A.R. 129-6-34(c)(2), exempted income shall be the following:

(a) Grants, scholarships, and loans provided for educational purposes;

(b) the value of benefits provided under the federal supplemental nutrition assistance program;

(c) the value of any food donated by the United States department of agriculture;

(d) benefits received under title V, community services employment program, or title VII, nutrition program for the elderly, of the older Americans act of 1965, as amended by public law 109-365;

(e) Indian funds distributed or held in trust by the secretary of the interior, including interest and investment income accrued on these funds while held in trust and initial purchases made with these funds;

(f) distributions to natives under the Alaska native claims settlement act;

(g) payments provided to individual volunteers serving as foster grandparents, senior health aides, and senior companions under title II of the domestic volunteer service act of 1973 as amended by public law 106-170;

(h) any payments provided through americorps, except that volunteers in service to America (VISTA) payments shall be exempt only as income;

(i) relocation payments received under public law 91-646;

(j) death benefits from social security administration (SSA), veterans administration (VA), railroad retirement, or other burial insurance policy if the benefits are used toward the cost of burial. This shall include payments occasioned by the death of another person to the extent that the payments have been expended or committed to be expended for purposes of the deceased person's last illness and burial;

(k) money held in trust by the VA for a child that the VA determines shall not be used for subsistence needs;

(l) retroactive corrective assistance payments in the month received or in the following month;

(m) maintenance income directly provided by rehabilitation services of the Kansas department for children and families;

(n) mandatory deductions from military pay for educational purposes while the individual is enlisted in the armed services;

(o) reimbursements for out-of-pocket expenses in the month received and the following month;

(p) proceeds from any bona fide loan requiring repayment;

(q) payments granted to certain United States citizens of Japanese ancestry and resident Japanese aliens under title I of public law 100-383;

(r) payments granted to certain eligible Aleuts under title II of public law 100-383;

(s) agent orange settlement payments;

(t) federal major disaster and emergency assistance and comparable disaster assistance provided by state or local government agencies or by disaster-assistance organizations in conjunction with a presidentially declared disaster;

(u) payments granted to the Aroostook band of Micmac Indians under public law 102-171;

(v) payments from the radiation exposure compensation trust fund made by the department of justice;

(w) special federal allowances paid monthly to children of Vietnam veterans who are born with spina bifida, under public law 104-204, or other certain birth defects, under public law 106-419;

(x) payments made from any fund established pursuant to a class settlement in the case of Susan Walker v. Bayer corporation, except for interest or other investment income earned on the payments;

(y) except for aged, blind, and disabled persons, a onetime payment or a portion of a one-time payment from a cash settlement for the repair or replacement of property or for legal services, medical costs, or other required obligations to a third party, if the payment is expended or committed to be expended for the intended purpose within six months of its receipt;

(z) cash donations that are based on need, do not exceed $300 in any calendar quarter, and are received from one or more private, nonprofit, charitable organizations;

(aa) foster care and adoption support payments;

(bb) the amount of any earned income tax credit received. This credit shall not be regarded as a cash asset in the month of receipt and in the following 12 months;

(cc) for aged, blind and disabled persons, a one-time payment or a portion of a one-time payment from a cash settlement for the repair or replacement of property or for legal services, medical costs, or other required obligations to a third party, if the payment is expended or committed to be expended for the intended purpose within nine months of its receipt. This time period may be extended for good cause;

(dd) for blind and disabled persons, income necessary for fulfillment of a plan to achieve self-support established for a blind or disabled person, as approved by the social security administration;

(ee) any interest earned on excluded burial funds and any appreciation in the value of an excluded burial arrangement that are left to accumulate and become a part of that burial fund, according to K.A.R. 129-6-109;

(ff) housing assistance from federal housing programs operated by state and local subdivisions;

(gg) family subsidy payments provided through the mental health and developmental disabilities commission or family support payments provided through the prevention and protection services commission;

(hh) relocation assistance provided by a state or local government that is comparable to assistance provided under title II of the uniform relocation assistance and real property acquisitions act of 1970, public law 91-646;

(ii) interest on an allowable individual development account (IDA) that meets the requirements of K.A.R. 129-6-109(e)(9), including authorized matching contributions and accrued interest. Earnings deposited in an individual development account shall also be exempted for a person who meets the requirements of K.A.R. 129-6-88;

(jj) the portion withheld to repay a prior overpayment received from a program not based on financial need, including certain programs administered by the SSA, VA, and the division of workers compensation or the division of employment security in the Kansas department of labor; and

(kk) payments made pursuant to the Ricky Ray hemophilia relief fund act, public law 105-369.

Kan. Admin. Regs. § 129-6-112

Authorized by and implementing K.S.A. 2012 Supp. 65-1,254 and 75-7403; effective, T-129-10-31-13, Nov. 1, 2013; effective Feb. 28, 2014.