Eligibility for Housing Services programs is determined by Travis County through the county's local community centers.
Included Income
- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), money, wages and salaries before any deductions.
- Net receipts from non-farm or farm self-employment (receipts from a person's own business or from an owned or rented farm after deductions for business or farm expenses.)
- Regular payments from social security, railroad retirement, unemployment compensation, strike benefits from unionfunds.
- Worker's compensation, veteran's payments, training stipends, alimony, military family allotments.
- Private pensions,government employee pensions (including military retirement pay), regular insurance or annuity payments.
- Dividends, interest, net rental income, net royalties, periodic receipts from estates or trusts; and net gambling or lottery winnings.
Excluded Income
- Social Security Disability Insurance (SSD1) payments, Supplemental Security Income (SS1) payments, capital gains; any assets drawn down as withdrawals from a bank.
- The sale of property, a house, or a car, one-time payments from a welfare agency to a family or person who is in temporary financial difficulty.
- Tax refunds, gifts, loans, and lump-sum inheritances, one-time insurance payments, or compensation for injury, non-cash benefits (employer-paid portion of health insurance or other employee fringe benefit.
- Food or housing received in lieu of wages.
- The value of food and fuel produced and consumed on farms, the inputed value of rent from owner-occupied non-farm or farm housing.
- Federal non-cash benefit programs as Medicare, Medicaid, Food stamps, and school lunches.
- Housing assistance and combat zone pay to the military.
- College scholarships, PeB and other grant sources, assitantships, fellowships and work study.
- Child support payments.
