Ariz. Admin. Code § R6-12-507 - Determining Monthly Income

A. For each family and assistance unit, the Department shall calculate monthly income using the methods described in R6-12-508.

B. The projected income shall include income that the family and assistance unit, or a person whose income is considered available to the assistance unit, has received and reasonably expects to receive in a benefit month, and shall be based on the Department's reasonable expectation and knowledge of the current, past, and future circumstances of the family, assistance unit, or person whose income is considered available to the assistance unit.

C. The Department shall include in its calculation all gross income from every source available to the family and assistance unit unless specifically excluded in this Article, by the federal Social Security Act or other applicable state or federal law.

D. The Department shall convert income received more frequently than monthly into a monthly amount as follows:

1. Multiply weekly amounts by 4.3,

2. Multiply bi-weekly amounts by 2.15,

3. Multiply semi-monthly amounts by two.

E. The Department shall determine a new calculation of projected income:

1. At each review for the needy family and the assistance unit, and

2. When there is a change in countable income of an assistance unit member or a person whose income is considered available to the assistance unit.

Notes

Ariz. Admin. Code § R6-12-507

Adopted effective November 9, 1995 (Supp. 95-4). Amended effective July 31, 1997, under an exemption from the provisions of A.R.S. Title 41, Chapter 6 (Supp. 97-3). Former R6-12-507 renumbered to R6-12-508; new R6-12-507 renumbered from R6-12-506 and amended by exempt rulemaking at 16 A.A.R. 1141, effective July 1, 2010 (Supp. 10-2).