La. Admin. Code tit. 48 § V-501

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

Section V-501 - Definitions

A. Family. A family is a group of two or more persons related by birth, marriage, or adoption who reside together; all such related persons are considered as members of one family, (If a household includes more than one family and/or more than one unrelated individual, the guidelines are applied separately to each family and or unrelated individual and not to the household as a whole.)

B. Family Unit of Size One. In conjunction with the income guidelines, a family unit of size one is an unrelated individual (as defined by the Census Bureau) i.e., a person 15 years old or over (other than an inmate of an institution) who is not living with any relatives. An unrelated individual may be the sole occupant of a housing unit (or in group quarters such as a roominghouse) in which one or more persons also reside who are not related to the individual) in question by birth, marriage, or adoption. (Examples of unrelated individuals residing with others include a lodger, a foster child, a ward, or an employee.)

C. Income

1. Refers to total annual cash receipts before taxes from all sources. (Income data for a part of a year may be annualized in order to determine eligibility.) Income includes money wages and salaries before any deductions, but does not include food or rent in lieu of wages. Income also includes net receipts from nonfarm or farm self-employment (receipts from a person's own business or farm after deductions for business or farm expenses.) Income includes regular payments from social security, railroad retirement, unemployment compensation, workers' compensation, strike benefits from union funds, veterans' benefits, public assistance (including Aid to Families with Dependent Children, Supplemental Security Income, and General Assistance money payments), training stipends, alimony, child support, and military family allotments or other regular support from an absent family member or someone not living in the household; private pensions, and regular insurance or annuity payments; and income from dividends, interest, rent, royalties, or periodic receipts from estates or trusts.

2. For eligibility purposes, income does not include the following money receipts: capital gains; assets drawn down as withdrawals from a bank, the sale of property, a house, or a car; tax refunds, gifts, lump-sum inheritances, one-time insurance payments, or compensation for injury. Also included are noncash benefits, such as the employer-paid or union- paid portion of health insurance or other employee fringe benefits, food or rent received in lieu of wages, the value of rent from owner-occupied nonfarm or farm housing, and such federal programs as Medicaid, food stamps, or public housing.

La. Admin. Code tit. 48, § V-501

Promulgated by the Department of Health and Human Resources, Office of Preventive and Public Health Services, LR 13:246 (April 1987).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 40:5.