Retroactively effective July 6, 2020:
Earned income is income received in exchange for an
individual's physical or mental labor. Earned income includes all of the
following:
(1) Compensation for
services performed, including wages, salaries, commissions, tips, sick leave,
vacation pay, draws, or the sale of blood or plasma.
(2) Income from on-the-job-training, paid job
experience, JOBS Plus work experience, or Welfare-to-Work work
experience.
(3) In-kind income,
when an individual is an employee of the person providing the in-kind income
and the income is in exchange for work performed by the individual, or when
received as compensation from self-employment.
(4) For self-employment, gross receipts and
sales, including mileage reimbursements, before costs.
(5) In:
(a)
The SNAP program,
cafeteria plan (see OAR
461-001-0000) benefits, and
funds placed in a flexible spending account.
(b) All programs except the SNAP program,
cafeteria plan benefits that an employee takes as cash, and
funds placed in a flexible spending account.
(6) Income from work-study.
(7) Income from profit sharing that
the
individual receives monthly or periodically, except as provided in OAR
461-145-0089 in the OSIP, OSIPM,
and QMB programs.
(8) The fee for
acting as an individual's representative payee, when that individual is not
included in the
filing group (see OAR
461-110-0310).
(9) In the SNAP program, expenditure by a
business entity that substantially benefits a
principal (see
OAR
461-145-0088).
(10) The income a
principal
(see OAR
461-145-0089) earns
working for
a corporation, unless
the individual can be considered self-employed under OAR
461-145-0910 or OAR
461-145-0915.
(11) In the OSIP, OSIPM, and QMB programs, a
non-business expenditure - including, but not limited to, a personal car or
housing payment - paid by an individual's corporation or
business
entity (see OAR
461-145-0089) that benefits
the
individual.
Notes
Or. Admin. Code
§
461-145-0120
AFS 80-1989, f. 12-21-89,
cert. ef. 2-1-90; AFS 20-1990, f. 8-17-90, cert. ef. 9-1-90; AFS 28-1992, f.
& cert. ef. 10-1-92; AFS 23-1994, f. 9-29-94, cert. ef. 10-1-94; AFS
10-1995, f. 3-30-95, cert. ef. 4-1-95; AFS 11-1999, f. & cert. ef. 10-1-99;
AFS 10-2002, f. & cert. ef. 7-1-02; AFS 13-2002, f. & cert. ef.
10-1-02; SSP 23-2003, f. & cert. ef. 10-1-03; SSP 17-2004, f. & cert.
ef. 7-1-04; SSP 14-2006, f. 9-29-06, cert. ef. 10-1-06; SSP 4-2007, f. 3-30-07,
cert. ef. 4-1-07; SSP 10-2007, f. & cert. ef. 10-1-07; SSP 8-2008, f. &
cert. ef. 4-1-08; SSP 30-2013(Temp), f. & cert. ef. 10-1-13 thru 3-30-14;
SSP 38-2013, f. 12-31-13, cert. ef. 1-1-14;
SSP
12-2015, f. 3-16-15, cert. ef.
4/1/2015;
SSP
25-2015, f. 9-29-15, cert. ef.
10/1/2015;
SSP
11-2018, amend filed 03/09/2018, effective
4/1/2018;
SSP
22-2018, amend filed 06/05/2018, effective
7/1/2018;
SSP
21-2020, amend filed 07/08/2020, effective
7/8/2020
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS
329A.500,
409.050,
411.060,
411.070,
411.404,
411.706,
411.816,
412.049,
413.085 &
414.685
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS
329A.500, ORS
409.010,
411.060,
411.070,
411.404,
411.706,
411.816,
412.049,
413.085,
414.685 &
414.839