Kan. Admin. Regs. § 129-6-113

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 49, December 5, 2024

Section 129-6-113 - Income exempt as applicable income for MAGI-excepted groups

For those groups specified in K.A.R. 129-6-34(c)(2), the following types of income shall be exempt as applicable income in the determination of eligibility:

(a) Income-in-kind;

(b) shelter cost participation payments. In shared living arrangements in which two families contribute toward the shelter obligations, cash paid toward the shared shelter obligation by one family to the second family in the shared arrangement shall not be considered as income to the second family. This exemption shall not be applicable in a bona fide, commercial landlord-tenant arrangement;

(c) hostile-fire pay received while in active military service;

(d) payments made pursuant to the crime victims fund, public law 103-322, as amended, and by the Kansas crime victims compensation board pursuant to K.S.A. 74-7301 et seq., and amendments thereto;

(e) payments received through the senior community service employment program;

(f) payments or allowances made under federal laws for the purpose of providing energy assistance. Home energy assistance furnished on the basis of need by a federally regulated or state-regulated entity whose revenues are primarily derived on a rate-of-return basis, by a private nonprofit organization, by a supplier of home heating oil or gas, or by a municipal utility company that provides home energy shall also be exempted;

(g) income received from the workforce investment act of 1998, public law 105-220. However, earnings received by individuals who are participating in on-the-job training programs shall be countable unless the individual is under the age of 19;

(h) the values of any services or monies received for support or transitional services paid directly to the customer through work programs as defined in article 4 of the regulations of the department for children and families;

(i) income of an SSI recipient, including a deemed recipient, and retroactive SSI benefits. This subsection shall not be applicable to any person residing in a long-term institutional arrangement in accordance with K.A.R. 129-6-111(b)(3);

(j) incentive payments received by renal dialysis patients;

(k) irregular, occasional, or unpredictable monetary gifts that do not exceed $50 per month per family group;

(l) tax refunds and rebates, except for earned income tax credits in accordance with K.A.R 129-6-112 (bb);

(m) VA aid and attendance and housebound allowances;

(n) VA payments resulting from unusual medical expenses;

(o) up to $2,000 per year of income received by an individual Indian that is derived from leases or other uses of an individually owned trust or restricted lands;

(p) lump sum income;

(q) earned income of a child who is under the age of 19 if the child is a student in elementary or secondary school or is working towards attainment of a G.E.D.;

(r) interest and dividend income that does not exceed $50 per month per family group;

(s) child care payments made to persons other than a child care provider;

(t) child support pass-through payments;

(u) payments from any bona fide loan;

(v) the amount of any child support arrearage payment paid for a child under the age of 18;

(w) reparation payments made to holocaust survivors;

(x) vendor payments that are not payable directly to a household but are paid to a third party for a household expense, as follows:

(1) Each payment made in money on behalf of a household shall be considered a vendor payment whenever a person or organization outside of the household uses its own funds to make a direct payment to either the household's creditors or a person or organization providing a service to the household;

(2) each assistance payment financed by state or local funds that is not made directly to the household but is paid to a third party on behalf of the household to pay a household expense shall be considered a vendor payment if the payment is for medical care, child care, or temporary housing assistance;

(3) each assistance vendor payment financed by state or local funds that is made on behalf of migrants in the labor stream pursuant to 7 C.F.R. 273.9 (c)(1) shall be exempt and not counted as income, regardless of the purpose of the vendor payment;

(4) each payment in money that is not made to a third party, but is made directly to the household, shall be counted as income and shall not be excludable as a vendor payment; and

(5) each payment or other assistance financed by state or local funds that is provided over and above the normal grant or other assistance payment and would not normally be provided in a money payment to the household shall be considered emergency or special assistance and exempted as income if provided directly to a third party for a household expense;

(y) payments provided through youth service corps;

(z) allocation payments made to individuals under a WORK plan according to K.A.R. 129-6-84;

(aa) for aged, blind, and disabled persons, one-third of the child support payments received by an eligible child from an absent parent;

(bb) for blind and disabled persons, work expenses of a blind recipient. The first $300 of earned income or verified actual average expenses, if in excess of this amount, shall be exempted under this subsection;

(cc) for blind and disabled persons, impairment-related work expenses of a disabled recipient. The first $100 of earned income or verified actual average expenses, if in excess of this amount, shall be exempted under this subsection;

(dd) for aged, blind, or disabled persons, the difference between the social security benefit entitlement in August 1972 and the entitlement in September 1972 for persons who were receiving cash assistance through the programs of aid to the aged, blind, or disabled (AABD) or aid to dependent children (ADC) in September 1972 and who were entitled to a social security benefit in September 1972. This exemption shall apply only if the exemption establishes eligibility without a spenddown;

(ee) for aged, blind, or disabled persons, the amount of all social security cost-of-living adjustments for a person who was concurrently receiving SSI and social security after April 1977 and who would be eligible for SSI if the cost-of-living adjustments received since that person was last eligible for SSI were not considered as income;

(ff) for aged, blind, or disabled persons, income allocated and expended by an adult in an institutional living arrangement for the support of the adult's minor children if the adult does not have a spouse who continues to live in the community. The income allocation shall not exceed the amount necessary to bring the children's income up to the appropriate income standard described in K.A.R. 129-6-103(a)(3);

(gg) for aged, blind, and disabled persons, SSI payments that the person is not legally entitled to receive and that are subject to SSI recovery;

(hh) for aged, blind, and disabled persons, the amount of the December 1983 increase in social security disabled widow or widower benefits resulting from the changes in the actuarial reduction formula, and all subsequent cost-of-living adjustments, for a person who was concurrently receiving SSI and social security disabled widow and widower benefits under section 202(e) or 202(f) of the social security act, if the person meets all of the following conditions:

(1) The person became ineligible for SSI due solely to the 1983 actuarial increase;

(2) the person has continually received social security disabled widow or widower benefits since the 1983 actuarial increase was first received;

(3) the person would be currently eligible for SSI if it were not for the 1983 actuarial increase and all subsequent cost-of-living adjustments; and

(4) the person applied for medical assistance before July 1, 1988;

(ii) for aged, blind, and disabled persons, the amount of the social security adult disabled child benefit for an otherwise eligible SSI person aged 18 or older who meets both of the following conditions:

(1) The person was receiving SSI benefits that began before the age of 22; and

(2) the person lost SSI eligibility due solely to the person's becoming eligible for the adult disabled child benefits or to an increase in the adult disabled child benefits;

(jj) for aged, blind, and disabled persons, the amount of social security early or disabled widow or widower benefits under section 202(e) or (f) of the social security act, if the person meets all of the following conditions:

(1) The person became ineligible for SSI because of the receipt of the benefits;

(2) the person would be currently eligible for SSI in the absence of the benefits; and

(3) the person is not entitled to hospital insurance benefits under part A of title XVIII of the social security act;

(kk) for aged, blind, and disabled persons, the income of an SSI recipient that exceeds the income standard for institutionalized persons for three months following the month of admission, if the social security administration determines that the stay in the institution is temporary and the person needs to continue to maintain and provide for the expenses of the home or another living arrangement to which the person could return;

(ll) for aged, blind, and disabled persons, the income of an applicant's or recipient's spouse or parent that was counted or excluded in determining the amount of a public assistance payment, if the spouse or parent is not an applicant for or recipient of medical assistance for aged, blind, and disabled persons;

(mm) for aged, blind, and disabled persons, the income of an applicant's or recipient's spouse or parent that is used to make support payments under a court order or title IV-D support order, if the spouse or parent is not an applicant for or recipient of medical assistance for aged, blind, and disabled persons;

(nn) for aged, blind, and disabled persons, the amount of VA pension received by a single veteran with no dependents or by a surviving spouse with no children, if the pension has been reduced to $90 or less because the veteran or spouse resides in a medicaid-approved nursing facility; and

(oo) for aged, blind, and disabled persons, Austrian social insurance payments based, in whole or in part, on wage credits granted under the Austrian general social insurance act.

Kan. Admin. Regs. § 129-6-113

Authorized by and implementing K.S.A. 2012 Supp. 65-1,254 and 75-7403; effective, T-129-10-31-13, Nov. 1, 2013; effective Feb. 28, 2014.