Excluded Income from Specific Programs Providing Assistance

Excluded Income from Specific Programs Providing Assistance A. The following are payments excluded from income that originate from a specific program that provides assistance payments. 1. Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP). Pay-for-Performance Success Payments under the HAMP are not taxable income and are not countable. 2. Hardest Hit Fund and Emergency Homeowners’ Loan Program payments. Payments from a State Housing Finance agency that can be used to pay mortgage interest or payments from Housing and Urban Development for an Emergency Homeowners’ Loan Program (EHLP) are not countable as income. 3. Mortgage assistance payments under section 235 of the National Housing Act for mortgage assistance are not included in the homeowner’s income. 4. Replacement housing payments made under the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act for Federal and Federally Assisted Programs are not counted as income. 5. Relocation payments and home rehabilitation grants under section 105(a)(11) of the Housing and Community Development Act made by a local jurisdiction to a displaced individual moving from a flood-damaged residence to another residence is not counted as income. Home rehabilitation grants received by low-income homeowners in a defined area under the same act are also not countable as income. 6. Payments to reduce the cost of winter energy made by a state to qualified individuals to reduce their cost of winter energy are not countable as income. 7. Holocaust Victims Restitution. Payments received by a Holocaust victim or the heir of a Holocaust victim and interest earned on the payments are not taxable and are therefore not countable as income. 8. Historic preservation grants. Payments received under the National Historic Preservation Act to preserve a historically significant property are excluded from income.