Minnesota Statutes Public Welfare and Related Activities (Ch. 245-267) § 256P.01. Definitions

Subdivision 1.Scope. For purposes of this chapter, the terms defined in this section have the meanings given them.

Subd. 2.Agency. “Agency” means any county, federally recognized Indian tribe, or multicounty social services collaboratives.

Subd. 2a.Assistance unit. “Assistance unit” is defined by program area under sections 142E.01, subdivision 13; 142G.02, subdivision 8; 256D.02, subdivision 1d; 256D.35, subdivision 3a; and 256I.03, subdivision 1b.

Subd. 2b. Census income. “Census income” means income earned working as a census enumerator or decennial census worker responsible for recording the housing units and residents in a specific geographic area.

Subd. 2c. Date of application. “Date of application” means the date on which the agency receives an applicant's application as a signed written application, an application submitted by telephone, or an application submitted through Internet telepresence. The child care assistance program under chapter 142E is exempt from this definition.

Subd. 3. Earned income. “Earned income” means income earned through the receipt of wages, salary, commissions, bonuses, tips, gratuities, profit from employment activities, net profit from self-employment activities, payments made by an employer for regularly accrued vacation or sick leave, severance pay based on accrued leave time, royalties, honoraria, or other profit from activity that results from the client's work, effort, or labor for purposes other than student financial assistance, rehabilitation programs, student training programs, or service programs such as AmeriCorps. The income must be in return for, or as a result of, legal activity.

Subd. 3. Earned income. “Earned income” means income earned through the receipt of wages, salary, commissions, bonuses, tips, gratuities, profit from employment activities, net profit from self-employment activities, payments made by an employer for regularly accrued vacation or sick leave, severance pay based on accrued leave time, benefits paid under chapter 268B, royalties, honoraria, or other profit from activity that results from the client's work, effort, or labor for purposes other than student financial assistance, rehabilitation programs, student training programs, or service programs such as AmeriCorps. The income must be in return for, or as a result of, legal activity.

Subd. 4.Earned income disregard. “Earned income disregard” means earned income that is not counted according tosection 256P.03when determining eligibility and calculating the amount of the assistance payment.

Subd. 5.Equity value. “Equity value” means the amount of equity in personal property owned by a person and is determined by subtracting any outstanding encumbrances from the fair market value of the personal property.

Subd. 5a. Lived-experience engagement. “Lived-experience engagement” means an intentional engagement of people with lived experience by a federal, Tribal, state, county, municipal, or nonprofit human services agency funded in part or in whole by federal, state, local government, Tribal Nation, public, private, or philanthropic money to gather and share feedback on the impact of human services programs.

Subd. 6.Personal property. “Personal property” means an item of value that is not real property.

Subd. 7.Self-employment. “Self-employment” means employment by an individual who:

Subd. 8.Unearned income. “Unearned income” has the meaning given insection 256P.06, subdivision 3, clause (2).

Subd. 9. Prospective budgeting. “Prospective budgeting” means estimating the amount of monthly income that an assistance unit will have in the payment month.