LUMP SUM PAYMENT: NONRECURRING SR 98-03, 05/98 (FSM-A)

Lump sum payments that are nonrecurring include:

• awards, lotteries, prizes, windfalls,

• conversion of resources to cash;

• corrective payments,

• inheritances,

• insurance claims,

• lump sum Earned Income Tax Credit payments,

• retirement benefits,

• retroactive benefits or payments,

• sale of property,

• settlement of personal injury or property claims, and

• third-party lump sum medical payments. If payments for medical expenses were previously paid by Medicaid, send all details regarding lump sum medical payments to Third Party Liability (TPL), Medicaid Administration Bureau (MAB) at State Office. TPL will determine the dollar amount the individual must reimburse to the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS),

• rebates or credits, and

• refunds of security deposits on rental property or utilities

Treatment: Countable Resource in the month received, unless specifically excluded from consideration as a resource by other federal statute.

Exception: VA payments to children born with spina bifida (including adult children) of Vietnam veterans are excluded per Sections 421 and 422(c) of Public Law 104-204.