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12. NOTE: FOR INTERMEDIATE CARE FACILITIIES FOR PERSONS WITH MENTAL RETARDATION (ICF/MR) where Medicaid pays the ICF/MR directly for services and rent and pays the tenant only a small personal allowance (e.g.. $35). annual income must include: A. the SSI payment the tenant would receive if he/she were not living in a group home. AND b. all income the tenant receives from aoON$ other the SSI (e.g., wages, training workshops, interest income, etc.). The personal allowance received by tenants in ICF/MR facilities must = be included in the calculation. B. Income Exclusions Certain sources of income should = be counted as annual income: 1. Employment income of members of the household that are under eighteen, including foster children. Head of household and spouse may never be considered minors. (Unearned incomes, such as social security payments received on behalf of minors, must be included as income.) 2. Resident service stipends not exceeding $200 per month received by a resident for Performing a service for the housing authority or the owner. on a part-time basis, that enhances the quality of life in the housing development. If the stipend exceeds $200 per month. the entire amount is included in annual income. Such services may include. but are not limited to. fire patrol, hall monitoring, lawn .+wrr s sw Z� maintenance. and resident initiatives coordination. No resident may receive more than one such stipend during the same period of time. 3. Earnings in excess of $480 for each full- time student, 18 years old or older (except the head or co-head of household and spouse). 4. "Meals on Wheels" or any other program that provides foods for the needy; groceries provided by persons not living in the household; and amounts received under the School Lunch Aa and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966. 5. Income associated with persons that live in the unit but are not household members. For example, this would include: a. payments received for care of foster children or foster adults; and b. income of live-in attendants. 6 The principal portion of the payments received on mortgages or deeds of trust. 7. Loans regardless of how the money is used. Loans are not counted as income because loans are required to be repaid. 8. Hazardous duty pay to a family member serving in the Armed Forces who is exposed to hostile fire. 9. Temporary, ran -recurring or sporadic income (including gifts). 10. Payments received under training programs funded by HUD (Comprehensive Improvement Assistance Program). 11. Adoption assistance payments in excess of $480 per adopted child.