Type of income

Countable for MAGIModified Adjusted Gross Income Medicaid?

Adoption payments, subsidized

No

American Indian/Alaska Native payments

No - see MS 819(D) for additional details.

Annuity Payments

Yes

Alien Sponsor income

Yes - see MS 819(C) and MS 820-6(A) for additional details.

Child Care Stipends

Yes - see MS 819(B)  for additional details.

Child Support

No

Census Income

Yes

Compensatory payments, court ordered

No

Contractual Income, such as monthly payments from sale of a house

Yes

Contract Work

See MS 819(A) for additional details.

Corporation For National and Community Service (CNCS) payments, which include AmeriCorps, VISTAVolunteers in Service to America, National and Civilian Corp, Foster Grandparents, the Senior Companion Program, and Retired and Senior Volunteer Corps (RSVP)

Yes - see MS 819(B) for additional details.

Corporation income from partnerships, estates, and S-corporations

Yes

Crowdfunding

See MS 819(B12) for additional details.

Disaster and Emergency Assistance provided by states, local governments, or disaster assistance organizations

No

Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)

No

Educational Grants, Awards, Scholarships, and Loans issued under any program funded under the Title IV of the Higher Education Act or under a Bureau of Indian Affairs student assistance program

No

Employer Sponsored Occupational Disability payments

No

Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation

No

Estate Income

Yes

Flexible Health benefits

See MS 819(A) for additional details.

Food Stamp Hold Harmless payment

No

Foster Care, including Therapeutic Foster Care and boarding home payments

No

Gambling and lottery winnings

See MS 819(B) for additional details.

Garnishments

Yes

Gifts

No

Guardianship payments, subsidized

No

Inheritances

No

In-kind earned income received as compensation for services rendered, such as rent reduction in exchange for managing apartments

Yes

In-kind support and maintenance not in the form of money such as meals, clothing, or housing

No

Interim Assistance

No

Jury Duty payments and Witness fees

Yes

Jury Duty Reimbursements and per diem

No

Loans, including educational, personal, and commercial

No

Lump sum payments, non-recurring

Yes - see MS 819(B) for additional details.

MAAST (Mature Alaskans Seeking Training Skills)

Yes

Military Entitlements

Yes - see Addendum 5 for additional details.

Missionary Income

Yes - see MS 819(A) for additional details.

OCSOffice of Children's Services Emergency Relief Support Program

Yes

PASS I, II, III Childcare

No

Payee Arrangements

See MS 819(D) for additional details.

Per Diem payment from employment

No

Permanent Fund Dividend

Yes - see MS 819(B) and MS 820-6(B)

Punitive Payments, court ordered

Yes

Public Assistance Payments

No

Refugee Assistance, paid one time or monthly

No

Recoupments

No

Reimbursements

No

Relocation payments

No

Rental allowance for clergy persons/Parsonage Allowance

No

Rental income, including room rental, limited entry fishing permit, or fishing vessel rental

Yes

Retirement/pension income

Yes

Restitution made to Aleuts or individuals of Japanese ancestry under Public Law 100-383

No

Self-employment income

Yes - see MS 819(A) and MS 821 for additional details.

Supplemental Security Income (SSISupplemental Security Income)

No

Social Security payments, excluding SSISupplemental Security Income. 

Yes - see MS 819(B) for additional details.

Spousal Support (Alimony)

See MS 819(B) for additional details.

Tax returns, federal,

No

Tax returns, state

Yes

Territorial Cost of Living Allowance (TCOLA)

See MS 819(D) for additional details.

Trust income

Yes

Unemployment benefits (UIBUnemployment Insurance Benefit)

Yes

Vendor payments – money paid by an outside source to a third party on behalf of the household

No

Veterans Post-9/11 GI Bill - provides up to 36 months of education benefits

No - see MS 819(D) for additional details.

Veterans Disability payments to primary individual or survivor, include VADepartment of Veterans Affairs dependency and indemnity payments

No

Veterans retirement paid by the Department of Defense Finance and Accounting Services (DFAS)

Yes

Veterans Survivor benefits

Yes

Victims of Crime Compensation

No

Vocational Rehabilitation from a state or Veteran program

No

Wages, including salaries, bonuses, commissions, tips, overtime, severance, and gratuities. This includes an SSISupplemental Security Income recipient’s wages.

Yes - see MS 819(A) for additional details.

Workers' Compensation

No

Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), such as the Summer Youth Employment and Training Program, and Job Corps

See MS 819(B) for additional details.

Work Study

No