SSI: Eligibility: Income Requirements

Earnings:

Unearned income is any money you receive from:

• Alimony and child support, whether in cash or in kind
• Annuities
• Dividends, interest and royalties on capital investments
• Gifts, including financial assistance from friends and family
• Inheritances
• In kind support or maintenance in the form of food, clothing or shelter
• Investments
• Lottery winnings
• Pensions including other Social Security, VA, and Railroad Retirement
• Periodic payments related to prior work or service
• Prizes and awards
• Rents for the use of real or personal property, after deducting ordinary and necessary expenses
• Royalties other than on published works
• State disability payments, unemployment insurance and workers compensation payments
• Unemployment Insurance benefits
• Workers Compensation benefits

Exclusions: (Do not count:)

• The first $20 per month you receive from any source except other needs-based public assistance such as General Relief
• Up to $20 a month if received on an irregular or infrequent basis
• Grant, scholarship or fellowship used for educational expenses other than any portion used for room and board
• Interest on excluded burial resource
• Transportation tickets for domestic travel received as a gift
• Needs based assistance wholly funded by a state or city
• Home produce
• Disaster relief assistance
• Home energy assistance
• Most food, clothing, or shelter you get from private nonprofit organizations
• Other exclusions such as federal relocation assistance, and l/3rd of support from an absent parent for a SSI recipient who is a child
• Special income exclusions such as reparation payments made to Holocaust survivors, or hostile fire pay

Calculation:

To calculate the effect of unearned income, deduct the first $20.

Then calculate the value of each item, dollar for dollar.

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