Property Used For Self-Support Excluded

Property essential to the employment or self-employment of a household member, such as tools of a trade or the farm land and machinery of a farmer, is excluded as a resource. Essential work-related equipment of an ineligible legal non-citizen or disqualified person is excluded as a resource. Self-support property is excluded during employment and temporary periods of unemployment. For a household member engaged in farming, property essential to self- employment continues to be excluded for one (1) year from the date the household member ends self-employment from farming. (7-1-24)