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DEFINITION OF “INCOME”
TO BE USED BY HILL-BURTON FACILITIES
For purposes of determining financial eligibility
under the Hill-Burton uncompensated services program,
income includes total annual cash receipts before taxes
from all sources, with the exceptions noted below. Income
includes money wages and salaries before any deductions;
net receipts from non-farm self-employment (receipts
from a person's own unincorporated business, professional
enterprise, or partnership, after deductions for business
expenses); net receipts from farm self-employment (receipts
from a farm which one operates as an owner, renter,
or sharecropper, after deductions for farm operating
expenses); regular payments from social security, railroad
retirement, unemployment compensation, strike benefits
from union funds, workers' compensation, veterans' payments,
public assistance (including Aid to Families with Dependent
Children or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families,
Supplemental Security Income, and non-Federally-funded
General Assistance or General Relief money payments),
and training stipends; alimony, child support, and military
family allotments or other regular support from an absent
family member or someone not living in the household;
private pensions, government employee pensions (including
military retirement pay), and regular insurance or annuity
payments; college or university scholarships, grants,
fellowships, and assistantships; and dividends, interest,
net rental income, net royalties, periodic receipts
from estates or trusts, and net gambling or lottery
winnings.
For official statistical purposes, income does not
include the following types of money received: Capital
gains; any assets drawn down as withdrawals from a bank,
the sale of property, a house, or a car; or tax refunds,
gifts, loans, lump-sum inheritances, one-time insurance
payments, or compensation for injury. Also excluded
are noncash benefits, such as the employer-paid or union-paid
portion of health insurance or other employee fringe
benefits, food or housing received in lieu of wages,
the value of food and fuel produced and consumed on
farms, the imputed value of rent from owner-occupied
non-farm or farm housing, and such Federal noncash benefit
programs as Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, school
lunches, and housing assistance.
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