Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 13, September 23, 2024
Subpart
1. [Repealed, 10 SR 1589]
Subp.
2.
Lump sums.
Lump sums, other than excluded property, shall be treated as
income in the month received and thereafter shall be treated as property,
except that retroactive awards of retirement, survivors, and disability
insurance shall be excluded as property for six months if retained after the
month of receipt. The client shall report the lump sum to the department within
ten working days.
Subp. 3.
Seasonal income from business or farm.
Average monthly amounts for gross income and the deductions
allowed in subpart
4 shall be used to calculate
the net monthly income of farmers and other individuals who experience seasonal
variations in income and business expenses.
Subp. 4.
Deductions from gross income
to arrive at net income.
The following items shall be deducted from the client's
monthly gross income:
A. State and
federal income tax payments, including back assessments.
B. Payments made under the Federal Insurance
Contributions Act and Supplemental Medical Insurance.
C. Child care costs paid by the client and
not reimbursed from any source.
D.
Support payments ordered by a court and actually paid. If this deduction is
taken, the individual for whom support is paid shall not be included as a
member of the client's household in determining the monthly household living
allowance in part
9515.2400.
E. Guardianship fees.
F. Monthly payments on previously incurred
bills for medical, dental, and hospital care, car payments, house payments or
rent, and utilities. The deduction allowed shall be the lesser of the sum of
the actual monthly payments or $100 per month.
G. Personal expenses of employment, including
mandatory retirement fund deductions, cost of transportation to and from work,
work uniforms, union dues, dues of a professional association required for
employment, and cost of tools and equipment used on the job. The amount
deducted for costs of transportation to and from work shall be either the
actual cost of public transportation or a per mile reimbursement as paid by the
state to an employee using a personal car on state business for actual miles
traveled.
H. Hospital and medical
insurance premiums.
I. Business and
farm expenses as reported on United States income tax returns. The cost of
repairs and upkeep of income producing property which may be deducted shall be
limited, on an annual basis, to two percent of the value of the
property.
J. An allowance of $86
per month per boarder, $71 per month per roomer, and $157 per month for each
person who is both a roomer and boarder. This amount shall be updated
periodically by the percentage the legislature authorizes for public assistance
grants.
K. A personal needs and
clothing allowance of the client in the amount determined under Minnesota
Statutes, section
256B.35
for persons receiving public assistance grants. In addition, a special personal
allowance drawn solely from earnings from any productive employment under an
individual plan of rehabilitation or work therapy shall be given to all clients
in state facilities. The special personal allowance shall not exceed 50 percent
of net monthly income.
L. Sixty
percent of the income earned from child care in one's own home or, if the
client chooses, the actual itemized business expenses incurred in providing
child care subject to the limitations provided in parts
9515.1200, subparts
2 and
3; and 9515.2300, subpart
4, item I.
M. A client receiving inpatient services
without dependents living in his or her home shall be allowed the actual cost
of his or her housing and utilities in the community for the month of admission
and a period of three months of continuous hospitalization subsequent to that
admission. A client receiving inpatient services with dependents living in his
or her home shall be allowed a pro rata share of his or her household's total
actual housing costs during the month of admission and for a period of three
months of continuous hospitalization subsequent to that admission. This housing
allowance shall be available to the client receiving inpatient services only
twice in any one calendar year regardless of the number of times the client is
admitted to a state facility in that calendar year. A client receiving
outpatient services or former client shall be allowed the actual cost of his or
her housing and utilities.
N. A
monthly household living allowance calculated according to the schedule in part
9515.2400.
