67:15:01:18Income exclusions.

In computing a household's income, the department excludes the following: (1) Earned income of a household member who is under the age of 18 or, if still in high school, under the age of 19; (2) Cash which is administratively difficult to compute and verify; (3) Tax refunds, earned income tax credits, and advanced earned income tax credits; (4) Reimbursement for expenses, such as medical expenses, mileage incurred in connection with employment, and other employment-related expense, incurred by the household; (5) Payments made to others on behalf of household members; (6) Money derived from programs established under Title III or Title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965, such as experience works (formerly green thumb), foster grandparents, retired senior volunteer programs, older Americans community service programs, VISTA program, and senior companion program; (7) Money borrowed by the household; (8) Educational benefits, including grants, scholarships, work study, and loans; (9) WIA educational and employment training expense reimbursements; (10) Insurance settlements replacing personal or real property; (11) Adoption subsidies received by the household; (12) Deductions from social security benefit payments for Medicare; (13) The portion of a social security lump-sum death benefit designated for funeral expenses; (14) Capital gains; (15) Proceeds from the sale of a home or farm, a liquidation auction, or the sale of property not normally sold in the household's regular course of doing business; (16) One-time payments from a welfare agency; (17) Cash gifts for recurring occasions such as birthdays and Christmas; (18) Earnings from community work experience programs, tribal work experience programs, and Job Corps programs; (19) Money earned from taking the census, unless it is the individual's full-time job; (20) Income used to pay child support; (21) Income withheld by other entitlement programs to recover overpayments made to a household member by the other program; and (22) Utility allowances.

Source: 8 SDR 95, effective February 18, 1982; 10 SDR 30, effective October 3, 1983; 11 SDR 96, effective January 27, 1985; 12 SDR 73, effective November 4, 1985; 17 SDR 66, effective November 12, 1990; 23 SDR 101, effective December 22, 1996; 29 SDR 116, effective February 23, 2003; 31 SDR 192, effective June 8, 2005; 36 SDR 103, effective December 21, 2009; 41 SDR 218, effective June 30, 2015.