Low Income

The following instructions apply to the Low Income section (Low Income, Income Amounts, and Income Totals) of the Demographics Information. The type of field is identified, as well as the description for each field.

Low Income

  1. Receives or in the past 6 months has received, or is a member of a family that is receiving or in the past 6 months has received cash payments under a federal, state, or local income based public assistance program: Drop-down; Select Yes or No.
  2. Receives or in the past 6 months has received, or is a member of a family that is receiving or in the past 6 months has received assistance through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): (missing or bad snippet)
  3. Receives or in the past 6 months has received, or is a member of a family that is receiving or in the past 6 months has received assistance through the Temporary Assistance for Need Families (TANF) program: Drop-down; Select Yes or No.
  4. Receives or in the past 6 months has received, or is a member of a family that is receiving or in the past 6 months has received assistance through the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program: Drop-down; Select Yes or No.
  5. Received an income, or is a member of a family that received a total family income for the six month period prior to application for the program involved that, in relation to family size, does not exceed the poverty line: Drop-down; Select Yes or No.
  6. Received an income, or is a member of a family that received a total family income, for the six month period prior to application for the program involved that, in relation to family size, does not exceed 70 percent of the lower living standard income level (LLSIL) for an equivalent period: Drop-down; Select Yes or No.
  7. Homeless individual or child/youth: Drop-down; Select Yes or No.
  8. Disabled and whose own individual income does not exceed the higher poverty line or 70% of the LLSIL, but is a member of a family whose income does not meet this requirement: Drop-down; Select Yes or No.

Income Amounts

  1. Gross wages and salaries before deductions. Total money earnings received from work performed as an employee. If a family's only source of income was from wages and salary payments, family income would be equal to gross wages and salary received:Text; enter the past six months' income information in whole dollars for client and family.
  2. Net receipts from non-farm self-employment (Receipts from a person's own unincorporated business, professional enterprise, or partnership after deductions for business expenses). If the business or enterprise has suffered a loss, this loss will be allowed to off-set wage earnings: Text; enter the past six months' income information in whole dollars for client and family.
  3. Net receipts from farm self-employment (receipts from a farm which one operates as an owner, renter, or sharecropper, after deductions for farm expenses). If the farm has suffered a loss, this loss will be allowed to off-set wage earnings: Text; enter the past six months' income information in whole dollars for client and family.
  4. Regular payments from railroad retirement benefits, strike benefits from union funds, worker's compensation, and training stipends: Text; enter the past six months' income information in whole dollars for client and family.
  5. Alimony:(missing or bad snippet)
  6. Military family allotments for other regular support from an absent family member or someone not living in the household, except child support payments and military payments indicated below which are excluded from family income: (missing or bad snippet)
  7. Pensions whether private or government employee (including military retirement pay). Text; enter the past six months' income information in whole dollars for client and family.
  8. Regular insurance or annuity payments received by the individual or family member. Text; enter the past six months' income information in whole dollars for client and family.
  9. College or university grants or scholarships based on merit, fellowships, and assistantships.(missing or bad snippet)
  10. Dividends, interest, net rental income, net royalties, periodic receipts from estates or trusts, and net gambling or lottery winnings. (missing or bad snippet)
  11. On-the-Job Training Wages: Text; enter the past six months' income information in whole dollars for client and family.
  12. Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) payments (Title II of the Social Security Act, Federal Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance). SSDI pays benefits to individuals that have worked in the past, paid SocialText; enter the past six months' income information in whole dollars for client and family. Security taxes, and are currently unable to work for a year or more because of a disability. SSDI is considered income replacement. Text; enter the past six months' income information in whole dollars for client and family.

Excludable Forms of Income

  1. State and federal unemployment insurance compensation:Text; enter the past six months' income information in whole dollars for client and family.
  2. Regular payments from Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASI) benefits received under Section 202 of the Social Security Act: Text; enter the past six months' income information in whole dollars for client and family.
  3. Supplemental Security Income Insurance (SSI) Title XVI of the Social Security Act, for the Aged, Blind, and Disabled. SSI is an income supplement program funded by general tax revenues and pays benefits based on financier need (not Social Security taxes). SSI is designed to help the aged, blind, and disabled people who have little or no income and provides cash to meet basic needs for food, clothing, and shelter:Text; enter the past six months' income information in whole dollars for client and family.
  4. Needs-based scholarship assistance: Text; enter the past six months' income information in whole dollars for client and family.
  5. Financial assistance under Title IV of the Higher Education Act (Pell Grants, Federal Supplemental Education Opportunity Grants and Federal Work Study, PLUS, Stafford and Perkins loans) are debt and not income: Text; enter the past six months' income information in whole dollars for client and family.
  6. Child support payments: Text; enter the past six months' income information in whole dollars for client and family.
  7. Cash welfare payments under a federal, state, or local income-based public assistance program (e.g., Temporary Assistance for Needy Families [TANF], Emergency Assistance money payments):Text; enter the past six months' income information in whole dollars for client and family.
  8. Refugee Cash Assistance (Refugee Assistance Act of 1980 - PL 97-212): Text; enter the past six months' income information in whole dollars for client and family.
  9. General Assistance: Text; enter the past six months' income information in whole dollars for client and family.
  10. Foster child care payments: (missing or bad snippet)
  11. Non-cash benefits such as employer-paid or union-paid portion or health insurance or other employee fringe benefits, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, school meals, and housing assistance:Text; enter the past six months' income information in whole dollars for client and family.
  12. Cash value of food or housing received in lieu of wages: Text; enter the past six months' income information in whole dollars for client and family.
  13. Cash payments received under Title V of the Older American's Act: Text; enter the past six months' income information in whole dollars for client and family.
  14. Allowance, earnings, and payments made to individuals participating in WIOA programs or any other workforce program for which eligibility is based upon needs and/or income test.Text; enter the past six months' income information in whole dollars for client and family.
  15. U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) rental assistance subsidies: Text; enter the past six months' income information in whole dollars for client and family.
  16. Subsidies for child care made on behalf of a family participating in the child care voucher program administered by the county Step Ahead Council: Text; enter the past six months' income information in whole dollars for client and family.
  17. Certain one-time cash payments including: tax refunds; one-time gifts; loans, which are debt and not income; assets from the sale of a home, property, or car; one-time insurance settlements; lump sum inheritances; one-time compensation for injury; etc.: Text; enter the past six months' income information in whole dollars for client and family.
  18. Capital gains and losses: Text; enter the past six months' income information in whole dollars for client and family.
  19. Iincome earned while a veteran was on active military duty and certain other veterans' benefits, i.e., compensation for service-connected disability, family compensation for service-connected death, vocational rehabilitation, and education assistance: Text; enter the past six months' income information in whole dollars for client and family.
  20. IRA Withdrawals:Text; enter the past six months' income information in whole dollars for client and family.
  21. Stipends received in the following programs: VISTA, Peace Corps, Foster Grandparent Program, YouthWorks/Americorps Programs, and Retired Senior Volunteer Program: Text; enter the past six months' income information in whole dollars for client and family.
  22. Job Corps payments:Text; enter the past six months' income information in whole dollars for client and family.
  23. Assets drawn down as withdrawals from a bank: Text; enter the past six months' income information in whole dollars for client and family.
  24. Payments received under the Trade Readjustment Act of 1974: Text; enter the past six months' income information in whole dollars for client and family.
  25. Job Seeker has no Income in the last six months: Checkbox; select if the job seeker has not received any income in the past six months. If this checkbox is selected, the job seeker will be flagged as Below Poverty Level.

Income Totals Page

  1. Family Size: Display; Number in client's family as entered on the Registration Information page.
  2. County: Display; client's county of residence.
  3. Type: Display; the county type assigned to the client's county of residence. County types are assigned by the AJL administrator.
  4. Poverty Level for Family Size: Display; poverty level for the client's family size, within the client's county of residence.
  5. 70% LLSIL for Family Size: Display; 70% of the Lower Living Standard Income Level (LLSIL) for the client's family size, within the client's county of residence.
  6. 100% LLSIL for Family Size: Display; 100% of the Lower Living Standard Income Level (LLSIL) for the client's family size, within the client's county of residence.
  7. Self Sufficiency Income Level for Family Size: Display; self-sufficient income level for the client's family size, within the client's county of residence.
  8. Includable Income: Display; calculated from the 6-month income entered n the Income Amounts page, multiplied by 2.
  9. Excludable Income: Display; calculated from the 6-month income enter on the Income Amounts page, multiplied by 2.
  10. Total Income: Display; calculated from the 6-month income enter on the Income Amounts page, multiplied by 2.

    The fields below Total Income indicate whether the client is Low Income Eligible (above or below poverty level and above or below 70% LLSIL) and Self-Sufficient.

  11. Edit Totals: Checkbox; select and click Next Step to return to the Income Amounts page. Leave unselected to proceed to the Public Assistance page.

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