**If none of the following excluded tribal incomes are met, then tribal income will be countable**

1. Financial assistance to any Navajo or Hopi Indian pursuant to 25 USCS-460d-460d-31 may not be considered as income or resources or otherwise used as a basis for denying or reducing the financial assistance or other benefits to which such household or member would otherwise be entitled to under the Social Security Act or any other Federal or federally assisted program.
2. Relocation assistance payments to members of the Navajo and Hopi Tribes are excluded from income and resources – P.L. 93-531, section 22
3. Income derived from certain submarginal land held in trust for certain Indian tribes is excluded from income and resources. The tribes that may benefit are:
   1. Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin;
   2. Black Feet Tribe;
   3. Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma;
   4. Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe;
   5. Crow Creek Sioux Tribe;
   6. Lower Brule Sioux Tribe;
   7. Devil’s Lake Sioux Tribe;
   8. Fort Belknap Indian Community;
   9. Assiniboine and Sioux Tribe;
   10. Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians;
   11. Keweenaw Bay Indian Community;
   12. Minnesota Chippewa Tribe;
   13. Navajo Tribe;
   14. Oglala Sioux Tribe;
   15. Rosebud Sioux Tribe;
   16. Shoshone-Bannock; and
   17. Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
4. Indian Claims Commission payments made pursuant to P.L. 95-433 to the Confederate Tribes and Bands of the Yakima Indian Nation and the Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation are excluded from income and resources.
5. Payments to the Passamaquoddy Tribe and the Penobscot Nation or any of their members received pursuant to the Main Indian Claims settlement Act of 1980 – P.L. 96-420, section 5. This includes the Houlton Band of Maliseet.
6. Payments to the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewas, Arizona. P.L. 97-403
7. Payments to the Blackfeet, Grosventre and Assiniboine tribes, Montana and the Papago, Arizona. P.L. 97-408
8. Funds distributed under P.L. 98-123, section 3, to members of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians. Funds are awarded in docket number 15-72 of the U.S. Court of Claims.
9. Per Capita and interest payments made to the members of the Assiniboine Tribe of the Fort Belknap Indian Community, Montana and Assiniboine Tribe of the Fort peck Indian Reservation, Mont. Funds were awarded in docket 10-81L. P.L. 98-127, section 5
10. Old Age Assistance Claims Settlement Act, provides funds made to heirs of decreased Indians under P.L. 98-500, Section 8, shall not be considered as income or resources nor otherwise used to reduced or deny SNAP benefits except for per capita shares in excess of $2,000.
11. Funds distributed per capita or held in trust for members of the Chippewas of Lake Superior. Judgements were awarded in dockets numbered 18-5, 18-U, 18-C and 18-T.
    Dockets 18-S and 18-U are divided among the following reservations:
    • Wisconsin:
      1. Bad River Reservation;
      2. Lac du Flambeau Reservation;
      3. Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation;
      4. Sokaogon Chippewa Community;
      5. Red Cliff Reservation; and
      6. Croix Reservation
    • Michigan:
      • Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (L’Anse, Lac Vieux Desert and Ontonagon Bands)
    • Minnesota:
      • Fond du Lac Reservation;
      • Grand Portage Reservation;
      • Nett Lake reservation (including Vermillion Lake and Deer Creek); and White Earth Reservation.
      • Under dockets 18-C and 18-T funds are given to the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of the Lake Superior Bands of Chippewa Indians of the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation of Wisconsin, the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians of the Bad River Reservation, the Sokaogon Chippewa Community of the Mole Lake Band of Chippewa Indians and the St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin.
12. White Earth Reservation Land Settlement Act of 1985, Section 16 excludes money paid under this Act. This Act involves members of the White Earth Band of Chippewa Indians in Minnesota. P.L. 99-264
13. Payments to the Signaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan are excluded. P.L. 99-345, Section 6(b)(2)
14. Funds distributed per capita to the Chippewas of the Mississippi or held in trust under this Act are excluded. P.L. 99-377, Section 4(b)
15. The Puyallup Tribe of Indians Settlement Act of 1989, Section 10(b) provides that nothing in this Act shall affect the eligibility of the Tribe or any of its members for an federal program. Section 10(c) provides that none of the funds, assets, or income from the trust fund established in section 6(b) shall at any time be used as a basis for denying or reducing funds to the Tribe or its members under any federal, state, or local program.
16. Funds appropriated in satisfaction of judgements awarded to the Seminole Indians in dockets 73, 151 and 73-A of the Indian Claims Commission are excluded except for per capita payments in excess of $2,000. Payments were allocated to the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the Miccosukee Tribe of Indian of Florida and the independent Seminole Indians of Florida. P.L. 101-277
17. None of the payments, funds or distribution authorized established or directed by the Seneca Nation Settlement Act of 1990 and none of the income derived shall affect the eligibility of the Seneca Nation or its members for or be used as a basis for denying or reducing funds under an federal program. P.L. 101-503, Section 8(b)
18. Payments made pursuant to the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation Grand Coulee Dam Act, Section 7(b) are totally excluded for SNAP purposes. P.L. 103-436
19. Eligibility for or receipt of distributions under the Michigan Indian Land Claims Settlement Act, Section 111, by a tribe or individual shall not be considered as income, resources or otherwise when determining the eligibility for or computation of any payment or other benefit to such tribe, individual or household under any financial aid program, or any other benefit to which such tribe household or individual would otherwise be entitled under any federal or federally assisted program. This public law pertains to judgement funds of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan.
20. Judgement Funds (applies to all tribes) as amended by P.L. 93-134 and P.L. 97-458 provides that none of the funds listed below are countable SNAP income which:
    1. Are distributed per capita or held in trust pursuant to plan approved under the provisions of this ACT (25 USCS 1401 et seq) or
    2. On the date of enactment of this Act (enacted Jan. 12, 1983) are to be distributed per capita or are held in trust pursuant to a plan approved by Congress prior to the date of enactment of this Act or
    3. Were distributed pursuant to a plan approved by Congress after December 31, 1981 but prior to the date of enactment of this Act and any purchases made with such funds, including all interest and investment income accrued thereon while such funds are so held in trust, shall be subject to Federal or State income taxes, nor shall such funds nor their availability be considered as income or resources nor otherwise utilized as the basis for denying or reducing the financial assistance or other benefits to which such household member would otherwise be entitled under the Social Security Act or, except for per capita shares in excess of $2,000, ay Federal or federally assisted program. This $2,000 per capita exclusion applies to each payment made to each person. Initial purchases made with exempt payments distributed between January 1, 1982 and Jan. 12, 1983 are excluded from resources to the extent that excluded funds were used.