Common Terms(IEM 4020)
The set period of time for which income verification is required.
What is Base Period?
Income from being employed in one's own trade, profession, or business; not by an employer.
What is Self Employment?
Cash payment assistance alternative to Work First for families with a temporary non-recurring situation associated with employment or other sources of financial stability.
What is Benefit Diversion?
The base period for most income is the month prior to the month of application or redetermination, if representative.
What is One Month?
Allow a deduction for legally obligated child support payments, including arrearage, that the FNS unit member pays or anticipates paying to or for a non-household FNS unit member.
What is Legal Support Obligation (LSO)?
Income not gained by work or delivery of service or product.
What is Unearned Income
Wages, salaries, and tips received for performing services as an employee of an employer.
What is Wages, Salary, and Tips?
Includes food subsidies, Free and Reduced Lunch Program, National School Lunch Act, Nutrition Program for the Elderly, Food Stamps and Surplus Commodities.
What is Food Assistance?
The base period for child support, spousal support and alimony is the three months prior to the month of application or redetermination, if representative.
What is Three Months?
Any specified person (except ineligible aliens, ineligible ABAWDS, or individuals ineligible for failure to enumerate) is allowed a medical deduction for all medical expenses that will not be paid or reimbursed by another source.
What is medical deduction?
The total amount of countable income before any deductions.
What is Gross Income?
Income from property owned directly by the individual, such as heir property. If the claimant has an ownership interest in property that produces income, the claimant also has a legal interest in the income.
What is Rental Income?
This is income that is received in a one-time payment and is nonrecurring unless exceptions noted in specific income type. Count as resource, not income. Severance pay is not considered a lump sum payment.
What is Lump Sum Payments (non-recurring)?
If the income is received annually or from self-employment, the base period is 12 months.
What is Twelve Months?
Allow every Food and Nutrition Services (FNS) unit with earned and/or unearned income a monthly standard deduction according to household size. (NC FAST automatically calculates this based on information entered into the system.) Only eligible FNS unit members are included in the household size for calculation of the allowable standard deduction.
What is Standard Deduction?
The last month of the current/active certification period.
What is Month of Determination?
Payments are given to foster care parents as reimbursement for room, board and supervision.
What is Foster Care Payments?
Includes income to compensate for expenses that do not represent a gain or benefit, such as loans and promissory notes when there is an agreed upon timetable for reimbursement.
What is Reimbursements?
Certain types of income require special base periods, particularly if the income is not stable or predictable. Exceptions to the base periods are listed in 4030.1 Earned Income and 4030.2 Unearned Income in the column labeled “Special Base Periods”.
What is Special Base Period?
The household has expenses that are incurred or billed whether paid or not. If an FNS unit has been granted a suspension of rent or mortgage payments (a moratorium), do not allow the rent or mortgage expense until it is incurred again.
What is Shelter Deductions?
Consists of those who are financially responsible for individuals in the assistance unit and whose income will be counted in determining eligibility.
What is a Budget Unit?
Earned income when they are received:
-As part of a trade or business (e.g., minerals, oil, gravel or timber), or
-By an individual in connection with any publication of his/her work.
What is Royalties(Earned)?
This is income received while participating in an education and vocational training program administered by the U.S. Department of Labor.
What is Job Corps?
If you use an (BLANK) method you must document why the base period is not representative and how you determined what is. This could also include counting actual income.
What is Alternate Budgeting?
Incurs at least two non-heating/non-cooling utility expenses including cooking fuel, electricity used for non-heating/non-cooling purposes, water and sewage charges, well and septic tank installation and maintenance, natural gas for water heaters, telephone, and garbage and trash charges.
What is Basic Utility Allowance?