In determining a person's or family's income, the following definition will be used:
A. Income includes the total annual cash receipts before taxes from all sources, with the exceptions noted below. B. Income includes money wages and salaries before any deductions; net receipts from non-farm self employment (receipts from a person's own unincorporated business, professional enterprise, or partnership, after deductions for business expenses); net receipts from farm self-employment (receipts from a farm which one operates as an owner, renter, or sharecropper, after deductions for farm operating expenses); regular payments from unemployment compensation, strike benefits from union funds, workers' compensation, public assistance (Aid to Families with Dependent Children or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, and non-federally funded General Assistance or General Relief money payments, and training stipends), alimony, child support, and military family allotment or other regular support from an absent family member or someone not living at the household; and regular insurance or annuity payments; college or university scholarships, grants, fellowships, and assistantships; and dividends, interest, net rental income, net royalties, periodic receipts from estates or trusts, and net gambling or lottery winnings. C. Income does not include the following types of money received: capital gains; any assets drawn down as withdrawals from a bank, the sale of property, a house, or a car; or tax refunds, gifts, loans, lump-sum inheritances, one time insurance payments, or compensation for injury. Also excluded are non-cash benefits, such as the employer paid or union paid portion of health insurance or other employee fringe benefits, food or housing received in lieu of wages, the value of food and fuel produced and consumed on farms, the imputed value of rent from owner occupied non-farm or farm housing, and such federal non-cash benefit programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, school lunches, and housing assistance. D. Income received from the following sources are not subject to the discounted rate: regular payments received from social security, railroad retirement, veterans payments, supplemental security income, private pensions, government employee pensions (including military retirement pay). The ability to pay for persons receiving income from any of these sources will be determined on a case by case basis. E. Any item of income which does not fit within any of the categories listed for inclusion or exclusion in this definition will be evaluated on a case by case basis to determine whether such income should be included or excluded. 24 Miss. Code. R. 1-8.1.8
Miss Code Ann. § 41-4-1 et seq., § 41-7-79, and § 41-4-7.