AB 930

This bill requires the Department of Health Services, the Department of

Children and Families, the Department of Administration, and the Wisconsin

Housing and Economic Development Authority to develop for any public assistance

program administered by it a method to disregard income earned from employment

for purposes of determining eligibility. The method must disregard for a period of

time specified in the bill a certain percentage of the increase in earned income from

employment as specified in the bill. The disregard in the bill applies if the increase

in earned income is the result of becoming employed after being unemployed or is the

result of a documented increase in work hours or pay rate. The earned income

disregard applies to the following public assistance programs: the Wisconsin Works

program, the FoodShare program, the housing cost grant or loan programs, the

housing rehabilitation loan program, the homeownership mortgage loan program,

the emergency heating assistance loan guarantee program, and the property tax

deferral loan program. The bill excludes from the earned income disregard any

individual whose household income equals or exceeds the applicable Department of

Workforce Development self-sufficiency standard.