Current through Register No. 40, October 3, 2024
(a) When determining eligibility and the
amount of assistance for all categories of financial assistance, an allowable
deduction from the income available to the assistance group shall be made, in
an amount which has been or must be paid by an individual for
non-employment-related types of expenses, including the following:
(1) Training expenses as described in (e)
below;
(2) Garnishments from an
individual's earnings to repay a legal debt;
(3) Allocated income, as specified in
He-W
654.21; and
(4) Any court-ordered payments, as described
in (f) below, including but not limited to child support, alimony, and
guardianship fees.
(b)
The deduction described in (a) above shall be allowed for:
(1) Any individual whose needs are included
in the assistance group; and
(2)
Any individual whose income is counted even if the individual's needs are not
included in the assistance group.
(c) The amount of the deduction shall be the
amount of the verified expense.
(d)
Allowable deductions shall be applied as follows:
(1) For FANF, and for adult category
financial assistance cases in which there is a nonapplicant spouse, the
allowable deductions shall be subtracted from the amount which represents the
monthly combined earned income, less all applicable disregards to earned income
as described in He-W 654.14 and
He-W
654.15, plus all unearned income; and
(2) For adult category financial assistance
cases in which there is an applicant spouse, the allowable deductions shall be
subtracted from the amounts which represent the individual monthly net incomes
of the applicant and the applicant spouse.
(e) Training expenses shall be an allowable
deduction when all the following circumstances are met:
(1) The individual is enrolled in and
regularly attending at least on a half-time basis, a program having an
organized curriculum with the specific objective of training individuals for
gainful employment;
(2) The
training program is sponsored by public education or the federal government, or
is offered by private schools for a particular trade;
(3) The individual has not received
reimbursement for the training expense from any other source, or if partial
reimbursement is made, the remaining expense shall be an allowable
deduction;
(4) The training expense
is not part of an employment expense disregard, because the individual has no
earned income, or the training is totally unrelated to the individual's
employment; and
(5) The expense
occurs on at least a monthly basis.
(f) Any court-ordered payment which must be
paid by an individual shall be an allowable deduction, regardless of whether
the individual actually makes the payment.
(See Revision Note at Chapter Heading He-W 600) #5171,
eff 6-26-91; ss by #6531, INTERIM, eff 6-27-97, EXPIRED: 10-25-97; ss by #6614,
eff 10-24-97; ss by #7342, eff 10-1-00; ss by #9276, eff
1-1-08
The amended version of this section by
New
Hampshire Register Number 6, eff.
1/28/2023 is not yet
available.
