Support Payments – Spousal Support, Alimony

Support Payments – Spousal Support, Alimony. A. These types of income are defined as follows: 1. Alimony and support payments are both cash contributions intended to meet some and all of a person’s needs for food and shelter. a) Support payments may be made voluntarily or because of a court order. b) Alimony, sometimes called “maintenance” is an allowance made by a court from the funds of one spouse to the other spouse in connection with a suit for separation or divorce. B. These types of income are treated as follows: 1. Alimony and spousal support payments are counted as unearned income to the recipient. 2. The income used to make court-ordered alimony or spousal support payments by an ineligible spouse, ineligible parent or ineligible child is excluded from the deemor’s income.