Alcohol, drugs and addictions

Household Income

Your household income is calculated as the 1-year prospective income – the total amount your household expects to earn during the next 12 months starting from the date you are requesting Behavioral Health Fund support.

Whose income counts depends on your status:

  • Adults: Count the combined income of all members of your household (yourself, your spouse, your minor-aged children, and your spouse’s minor-aged children living in the same home/dwelling)
  • Minors: Count the combined income of your household members excluding your own income (count income of your parents and minor-aged siblings living in the same home/dwelling)
  • Minors Giving Effective Consent: Count only your own income.

Income includes: cash wages or salaries, self-employment income (net after allowable IRS deductions), Social Security, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), retirement/pension, Railroad Retirement, General Assistance, unemployment compensation, training stipends, union funds, alimony received, veteran’s benefits, military family allotments, MFIP, child support received, dividends, interest payments, rental income, or royalties, and Tribal per capita payments from casinos.

Income does not include: gifts, cash drawn from a bank account, tax refunds, earnings from the sale of a house or car, inheritances, capital gains, savings, non-cash benefits, worker’s compensation, compensation for injury while on active duty, or the following Tribal per capita payments distributed:

  • under Public Law 98-123, Public Law 98-124, and Public Law 99-377 to the Mississippi Band Chippewa Indians of White Earth, Leech Lake, and Mille Lacs reservations,
  • to members of the White Earth Band from the White Earth Reservation Land Settlement Act of 1985 (Public Law 99 264, Public Law 100-153, and Public Law 100-212), 
  • from the Cobell v. Salazar class action settlement between the United States Government and American Indian plaintiffs whose land trust royalties were mismanaged by the United States Interior Department (Public Law 111-291), 
  • under Public Law 99-377 to the Mississippi Band Chippewa Indians of White Earth, Leech Lake, and Mille Lacs reservations, 
  • under Public Law 99-264, Public Law 100-153, and Public Law 100-212 to members of the White Earth Band of Chippewa Indians from the White Earth Reservation Land Settlement Act of 1985 (WELSA), 
  • under 25 USC § 1407 to members of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa Indians pursuant to the agreement to restrict tribal rights to hunt and fish in ceded territories,
  • under Public Law 85-794 to members of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians from the proceeds of the sale of timber and lumber on the Red Lake Reservation, 
  • under Public Law 94-114 to the White Earth Band of Chippewa Indians regarding submarginal land held in trust by the United States,
  • under Public Law 98-123 § 3 to the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, 
  • under Public Law 99-130 to members of the Prairie Island Sioux, Lower Sioux, and Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Communities of Minnesota, 
  • under Public Law 99-146 to members of the Chippewa of Lake Superior and the Chippewa of the Mississippi. 

Download the Excel spreadsheet for assistance calculating your household income: 

Household Income Calculator

There is a column for each household member’s income.  Use as many columns as needed for all income earners in your household.  Enter the amount that each household member expects to receive from each of the income categories (listed in the left column) over the next 12 months.  The tool will add these amounts together and provide the total annual household income expected to be received over the next 12 months.