New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 8 - SOCIAL SERVICES
Chapter 206 - MEDICAID ELIGIBILITY - CYFD CHILDREN (CATEGORIES 006, 017, 037, 046, 047, 060, 061, 066 and 086)
Part 500 - INCOME AND RESOURCE STANDARDS
Section 8.206.500.18 - UNEARNED INCOME
Universal Citation: 8 NM Admin Code 8.206.500.18
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
Unearned incomes includes but is not limited to social security benefits, child support, gifts, contributions, and all other cash income which does not meet the definition of earned income. Unearned income is counted in the gross amount received.
A. Unearned income exclusions and disregards: Certain amounts of unearned income are excluded from the computation of unearned income.
(1) Educational assistance
exclusions: Bona fide loans from private individuals or commercial institutions
for education assistance are excluded from unearned income. Income from work
study whose purpose is to assist with educational expenses are excluded from
unearned income. Educational grants and scholarships whose purpose is to assist
with education expenses are excluded regardless of the actual utilization of
the funds.
(2) Child nutrition and
school lunch benefit exclusion: Child nutritional and school lunch benefits
provided in the form of money payments, vouchers, or foodstuffs authorized
under the Child Nutritional Act and the National School Lunch Act are
excluded.
(3) Income tax return
income exclusion: State and federal income tax refunds are excluded from
consideration as income. Tax refunds are considered resources.
(4) Native American payment exclusion:
Certain payments to Native Americans can be excluded which include:
(a) per capita payment of tribal funds
authorized by the tribe or by the secretary of the United States department of
the interior; payments received and distributed by the bureau of Indian affairs
(BIA) as a trustee for an individual members of a tribe, refer to as individual
Indian monies (IAMB) are not considered as per capita payments;
(b) interest derived from retrained per
capita payments is disregarded if the retained per capita payments have not
been commingled with other savings; and
(c) BIA general assistance payments made to
disabled tribal members by the BIA;
(d) any tax exempt payment made under the
Alaska Native Claims Act are excluded from consideration as unearned
income.
(5) Settlement
fund payment exclusions: Payments received from the agent orange settlement
fund or from any other fund established pursuant to the agent orange product
liability litigation settlement are excluded from unearned income. Payments
received from the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act are excluded from
unearned income. Payments by the remembrance, responsibility and the future
foundation to individual survivors forced into slave labor by the Nazis are
excluded from unearned income.
(6)
Payments made by division of vocational rehabilitation: Any payment made by the
division of vocation rehabilitation to an applicant/recipient in training to
help them meet additional training costs are disregarded. The entire payment is
disregarded unless specific portion is designated for basic maintenance and the
applicant/ recipient is maintaining only one resident. The portion designated
for basic maintenance is considered income.
(7) Child support disregard: The first $50 of
child support payments received in a month from an absent parent which
represents payment on a support obligation for the month is disregarded in the
eligibility determination and redetermination process.
(a) If multiple child support payments are
received such as cases where more than one parent is paying or a parent makes
weekly or biweekly payments, the disregard is allowed only once during the
month.
(b) If a payment included
both current support and arrearage, the disregard is allowed only on the
current support.
(8)
Disregard for payments made by CYFD: Payment made by CYFD to a third party on
behalf of an applicant/ recipient are not considered income to the
applicant/recipient.
(9) Chafee
independent living assistance recipients: All unearned income of an
applicant/recipient between 18 and 21 years of age is excluded.
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