Unearned Income Definition
Unearned income is income received from sources unrelated to employment and is generally not acquired through work.
See any of the following types of income listed in the CNAP Manual for more information about income types that are normally considered unearned income:
●29 Educational Savings Account Payments
●Adoption Subsidies
●Agent Orange Payments
●Alimony or Spousal Maintenance Payments
●Americorps Network Program
●Annuities
●Assistance Payments
●Begging or Panhandling
●Black Lung Payments
●Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Payments
●Burial Benefits
●Cash Gifts
●Child Care Payments (Title IV-A)
●Child Care Food Program Payments
●Child or Medical Support
●Child Tax Credit
●Clinical Trial Compensation
●Commissions From Terminated Employment
●Complementary Assistance
●Contributions - Cash
●Contributions - Noncash
●Disaster Relief
●Diverted Funds
●Dividends and Royalties
●Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)
●Emergency Food Program
●Energy Assistance Payments
●Federal Relocation Assistance Payments
●Foster Care Payments
●Filipino Veterans Compensation Fund
●Gift Cards
●Grandparent Kinship Care Support Service Payment/Stipend
●Grant Diversion Payments
●Guardian Subsidy Payments
●Hemophilia Relief Fund Settlement Payments
●Indian Claims or Funds
●Indian Gaming Income
●Individual Development Account (IDA) Deposits
●Individual Development Account (IDA) Withdrawals
●Inheritance
●Insurance Payments
●Interest Payments
●Lease or Royalty From Indian Land
●Leave Pay From Terminated Income
●Legal Settlements
●Loans
●Lump Sum Payments
●Matching Grant (MG) Program Payments
●Mathematica TANF Survey Incentive Payments
●Military Income
●Mortgages and Sales Contracts
●Nazi Persecution Payments
●Nutrition Assistance Program (NAP)
●Phen-Fen Payments
●Plan for Achieving Self Support
●Public Housing FSS Escrow Account
●Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Payments
●Railroad Retirement
●Reimbursements
●Rent or Housing Cost Sharing
●Rental Property
●Retirement and Pension Benefits
●S Corporation Profits
●School Clothing Allowance
●Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP)
●Social Security Administration (SSA) Benefits
●Spina Bifida Payments
●Strike Pay
●Summer Components Program (SCP)
●Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
●Supplemental Unemployment Benefits
●Tax Refunds - State & Federal
●Third Party Beneficiary Payments
●Trade Readjustment Allowance (TRA)
●Unemployment Insurance (UI)
●USA Patriot Act of 2001
●Uniform Services Former Spouse Protection Act
●Vendor Payments
●Veterans Administration (VA) Benefits
●Victims of Crime Act (VCA) Payments
●VOLAG or RA Reception and Placement (R&P) Grants
●Wartime Relocation of Civilian Law
●Weatherization Assistance
●Winnings
●Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program
●Work Experience Program Payments (WEX PPEP)
●Worker's Compensation
●Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA)