New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 8 - SOCIAL SERVICES
Chapter 139 - FOOD STAMP PROGRAM
Part 527 - FOOD STAMP PROGRAM / INCOME AND RESOURCES EXCLUDED BY FEDERAL LAW
Section 8.139.527.10 - AMERICAN INDIAN OR ALASKA NATIVE
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
A. Payments to the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewas, Arizona (P.L. 97/403).
B. Payments to the Blackfeet, Gros Ventre, and Assiniboine tribes (Montana) and the Papago, Arizona tribe per P.L. 97/408.
C. Per capita and interest payments made to the Assiniboine Tribe of the Fort Belknap Indian Community, Montana, and to the Assiniboine Tribe of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana under P.L. 98/124, Section 5. Funds were awarded in docket 10/81L.
D. Funds awarded in docket number 15/72 of the United States Court of Claims and distributed to members of the Red Lake Band of Chippewas in accordance with P.L. 98/123, Section 3, 10/13/1983.
E. Payments to the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan under P.L. 99/346, Section 6 (b)(2).
F. Per capita payments distributed to, or held in trust for, the Chippewas of the Mississippi in accordance with P.L. 99/377, Section 4(b), 8/8/1986. The judgments were awarded in Docket Number 18/S. The funds are divided by reservation affiliation for the Mille Lac, White Earth, and Leech Lake Reservations, all of Minnesota.
G. All compensation, including cash, stock partnership interest, land, interest in land, and other benefits received under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, P.L. 92/203, Section 29, dated 1/2/1976 and the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act Amendments of 1987, P.L. 100/241, Section 15, 2/3/1988.
H. In accordance with 25 USCS 1407, Judgment Funds, as amended by P.L. 93/134 and P.L. 97/458, funds appropriated in satisfaction of judgments of the Indian claims commission or claims court in favor of any Indian tribe, band, etc. which:
I. Per capita payments from funds which are held in trust by the secretary of the interior (trust fund distributions) for an Indian tribe per P.L. 98/64, 8/2/83, which applied the exclusion in 25 USC 1407. Per capita payments may be authorized for specific tribes under other public laws.
J. Relocation assistance payments to members of the Navajo and Hopi tribes under P.L. 93/531, section 22.
K. Income derived from certain submarginal land held in trust for certain Indian tribes under P.L. 94/114, section 6, 10/17/1975. The tribes that may benefit are the:
L. Payments from the disposition of funds to the Grand River Band of Ottawa Indians, per P.L. 94/540.
M. Indian claims commission payments made to the confederated tribes and bands of the Yakima Indian Nation and the Apache tribe of the Mescalero reservation under P.L. 95/433, Section 2.
N. Payments made to the Passamaquoddy tribe, the Penobscot nation, and the Houlton Band of Maliseet under the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980, P.L. 96/420, Section 9(c), 10/10/1980.
O. Funds made to heirs of deceased Indians under the Old Age Assistance Claims Settlement Act, under P.L. 98/500, Section 8, 10/17/1984, except for per capita shares in excess of $2,000.
P. Funds distributed per capita to the Sac and Fox Indians or held in trust per P.L. 94/189, Section 6, 12/31/1975. The funds are divided between members of the Sac and Fox tribe of Oklahoma and the Sac and Fox tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa. The judgments were awarded in Indian claims commission dockets numbered 219, 153, 135, 158, 231, 83, and 95.
Q. Funds distributed per capita or held in trust for members of the Chippewas of Lake Superior in accordance with P.L. 99/146, Section 6(b), 11/11/1985. Judgments were awarded in dockets numbered 18/S, 18/U, 18/C, and 18/T. Dockets 18/S and 18/U are divided among the following reservations:
R. Monies paid to the White Earth Band of Chippewa Indians in Minnesota, under the White Earth Reservation Land Settlement Act of 1985, per P.L. 99/264, Section 16, 3/24/1986.
S. Funds, assets, or income from the trust fund established and paid to the Puyallup tribe in the state of Washington will not affect the eligibility or benefit amount of its members for any federal program, per P.L. 101/41, 6/21/1989, Section 10(b), of the Puyallup tribe of Indians Settlement Act of 1989. Section 10(c) provides that none of the funds, assets, or income from the trust fund established in Section 6(b) shall at any time be used a basis for denying or reducing funds to the tribe or its members under any federal, state or local program.
T. Funds appropriated in satisfaction of judgments awarded to the Seminole Indians in Dockets 73, 151, and 73/A of the Indian claims commission, except for per capita payments in excess of $2,000 under P.L. 101/277, 4/30/1990. Payments were allocated to the Seminole nation of Oklahoma, the Seminole tribe of Florida, the Miccosukee tribe of Indians of Florida, and the independent Seminole Indians of Florida.
U. Payments, funds, or distributions authorized, established, or directed by the Seneca Nation Settlement Act of 1990 in accordance with P.L. 101/503, Section 8(b), dated November 3, 1990.
V. Interests of individual Indians in trust or restricted lands, and up to $2,000 per year of income received by individual Indians that is derived from such interests under 25 USCS 1408, as amended by P.L. 93/134, Section 8, 10/19/73, P.L. 97/458 and P.L. 103/66, Section 13736, 10/7/93. Interests include an Indian's right to or legal share of the trust or restricted lands and any income accrued from the funds in trust or the restricted lands. The exclusion applies to each individual Indian with an interest. The income exclusion applies for both eligibility and benefit amount purposes in the food stamp program. The income exclusion applies to calendar years and is effective beginning January 1, 1994.
W. Grant programs for child and family services on or near reservations in preparation for and implementation of child welfare codes under 25 USC 1931 Indian Child Welfare, P.L. 95/608, 11/8/1978), subparagraph (a). Such programs may include, but are not limited to, family assistance, including homemaker and home counselors, day care, after school care, and employment, recreational activities, and respite care; home improvement; the employment of professional and other trained personnel to assist the tribal court in the disposition of domestic relations and child welfare matters; and education and training of Indians, including tribal court judges and staff, in skills relating to child and family assistance and service programs. Subparagraph (b) provides that assistance under 25 USCS 1901 et seq. shall not be a basis for the denial or reduction of any assistance otherwise authorized under any federally assisted programs.