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INCOME GUIDELINES
To participate in the Summer Youth Works! Program, your household must meet the following Income Eligibility requirements:
Low income categories are:
- Receives or is a member of a family that receives cash payments under a Federal, State, or Local income based public assistance program
- Is a member of a household that receives (or has been determined within the 6 month period prior to application to be eligible to receive) food stamps
- Received an income, or is a member of a family that received a total family income for 6 months that does not exceed the amounts on the Low Income Chart below
Determining Income
- Along with your parent(s) or guardian(s), total your household income for the past 6 months.
- Once you have that 6 month total review the Includable and Excludable list of income directly below and subtract all Excludable Income from your total income. (Excludable income does not count toward determining your household income eligibility.)
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Includable and Excludable Income for WIA
The total includable income of an individual or a family for the 6-month period prior to application for the program.
(See inclusions and exclusions below.)
Family income shall include total cash receipts before taxes as identified below:
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| Includable Income |
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Wages and salaries before any deductions, including wages earned while in OJT, on reserve duty in the Armed Forces, and severance pay |
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Net receipts from non-farm self-employment (receipts from a person's own unincorporated business, professional enterprise, or partnership after deductions for business expenses) |
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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) |
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Regular payments from pension and retirement systems including private, government, railroad, and military retirement pay |
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Regular payments from Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) |
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Strike benefits from union funds |
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Worker's compensation |
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Training stipends |
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Alimony |
| 10 |
Regular support (other than child support) from an absent family member or someone not living in the household |
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Military family allotments |
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Regular insurance or annuity payments |
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College or university grants, fellowships, and assistantships (other than needs-based scholarships) |
| 14 |
Dividends and interest |
| 15 |
Net rental income |
| 16 |
Net royalties and/or periodic receipts from estates and trusts |
| 17 |
Net gambling or lottery winnings |
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| Excludable Income |
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Unemployment compensation |
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Child support payments, including foster care payments and adoption subsidies |
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Cash payments under a Federal, State, or local income based public assistance program such as:
a. Ohio Works First (OWF) cash payments
b. Prevention, Retention & Contingency (PRC)
c. Disability Assistance
d. Refugee Cash Assistance |
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Old age and survivors insurance benefits received under section 202 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 402) |
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Supplemental Security Income (SSI) from SSA |
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Needs-Based scholarship assistance, and financial assistance under Title IV of the Higher Education Act (i.e., Pell Grants Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants and Federal Work Study. Stafford and Perkins loans like any other kind of loan are debt and not income) |
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Pay and allowances received under Title 38 Chapters 11, 13, 30, 31, 32, 35, and 36. (i.e., pay and allowances received while serving on active military duty, compensation for service-connected disability, compensation for service-connected death, vocational rehabilitation, education assistance, and active duty pay for reservists called to active military duty) |
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Capital gains |
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Any assets drawn down as withdrawals from a bank, sale of property, a house or a car |
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Tax refunds, gifts, loans, lump-sum inheritances, onetime insurance payments, or compensation for injury |
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Non-cash benefits such as employer paid fringe benefits, food or housing received in lieu of wages, Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, school meals, fuel or other housing assistance |
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Wages earned by WIA articipants while in WIA programs (except OJT participants) |
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Determining if your income qualifies
See Income Chart below
- Find the number living in your household and directly below that you will see an income amount.
- If your household income does not exceed that amount you are eligible for the Summer Youth Works! Program.
- If your household income does exceed that amount then STOP and call your Service Provider for clarification.
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| Low Income |
| Is a member of a family that received a total income for the last 6 months that does not exceed the amounts below for an equivalent period and for the family size. |
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7 or more |
| *Figures are based on a 6 month timeframe |
$5,415 |
$7,285 |
$9,412 |
$11,619 |
$13,711 |
$16,037 |
Ask your Service Provider |
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