- (a) Neither the United States Department of Health and Human Services poverty guidelines, the federal Community Services Block Grant Act, 42 U.S.C. § 9901 et seq., nor applicable United States Department of Health and Human Services regulations define the term “income”.
(b)
- (1) Following is an example of how the term “income” might be defined.
- (2) Other reasonable definitions are also acceptable.
- (3) Income includes total annual cash receipts before taxes. Example: Income includes: Wages and salaries before any deductions;Net receipts from nonfarm self-employment (receipts from a person’s own unincorporated business, professional enterprise, or partnership, after deductions for business expenses); Net receipts from farm self-employment (receipts from a farm, indicating which individual operates as an owner, renter, or sharecropper, after deductions for farm operating expenses);Regular payments from Social Security, railroad retirement, unemployment compensation, strike benefits from union funds, workers’ compensation, veterans’ payments, public assistance (including Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Supplemental Security Income, and nonfederally funded General Assistance or General Relief 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, government employee pensions, including military retirement pay, and regular insurance or annuity payments;College or university scholarships, grants, fellowships, and assistantships;Dividends, interest, net rental income, and net royalties;Periodic receipts from estates or trusts; andNet gambling or lottery winnings. Income does not include: Tax refunds;Assets drawn down as withdrawals from a bank or the sale of property, such as a house or a car;Capital gains;Gifts, loans, lump-sum inheritances, one-time insurance payments, or compensation for injury;Employer-paid or union-paid portion of health insurance or other employee fringe benefits;Food or housing received in lieu of wages;Federal or state noncash benefit programs as Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, school lunches, and housing assistance; andPayments required under federal or state law to be excluded from the definition of income for calculating eligibility for federal or state public benefit programs, such as cost reimbursements under the federal Foster Grandparent Program (see 45 C.F.R. § 2552.47).