Resource Exclusions

• The home, and any adjoining land
• Household goods and personal effects that have a total value of $2,000 or less
• One car if it is: necessary for employment, or necessary fro medical treatment, or modified for use by a disabled person, or it provides necessary transportation to perform essential daily activities, or has a current market value less than $4500
• Property of a trade or business that is essential for self-support
• Non-business property which is essential to self-support
• Resources of a blind or disabled individual necessary to fulfill an approved PASS
• Certain stocks held by Alaskan natives
• Life insurance, if the total face value of all policies on one person do not exceed $1500. Otherwise, the cash surrenders values of life insurance policies will count as a resource
• Restricted allotted Native American lands
• Payments or benefits paid under other Federal statutes
• Disaster relief assistance
• Burial space of any value, and burial funds up to $1500
• Title XVI (SSI) or Title II (SSDI) retroactive payments for 6 months
• Housing assistance
• Earned Income Tax Credits
• Nine months of payments received as compensation for expenses or losses suffered as a result of a crime
• Nine months of reallocation assistance