1. Two-month Earned Income Exclusion

2. Introduction
When a KTAP/ET recipient reports new earnings, he/she is potentially eligible for a 2-month exclusion of wages.
This exclusion began as an incentive for KTAP recipients to become employed.
This presentation will explain the rules for allowing the 2-month earned income exclusion, and demonstrate system entry on KAMES.
If the gross income test is passed, deductions are allowed from the earned income of each individual, including sanctioned or penalized individuals, if appropriate.
This presentation will help you to correctly apply KTAP earned income deductions and the two-month earned income exclusion.

3. General Rules
The 2-month earned income exclusion is allowed for each active adult KTAP member.
A recipient can only receive the 2-month earned income exclusion ONCE in a lifetime.
The recipient chooses when to use the exclusion. They may choose to save it for a future job.
If the gross income test is passed, deductions are allowed from the earned income of each individual, including sanctioned or penalized individuals, if appropriate.
This presentation will help you to correctly apply KTAP earned income deductions and the two-month earned income exclusion.

4. Who Gets It?
Each active adult member of the case is eligible for the exclusion. (Including sanctioned or penalized members)
A teen parent under 18 is only eligible for the exclusion if he/she is coded the SR (M03) or SP (M04) in the KTAP case. (If his/her wages are not otherwise excluded due to school attendance)
A teen parent age 18 or 19 is considered an adult, and is eligible for the exclusion, if appropriate.
If the gross income test is passed, deductions are allowed from the earned income of each individual, including sanctioned or penalized individuals, if appropriate.
This presentation will help you to correctly apply KTAP earned income deductions and the two-month earned income exclusion.

5. Who Doesn’t?
This exclusion does NOT apply to new approvals.
This exclusion does NOT apply to new members added to the case with wages.
The earnings are NOT excluded in the related food stamp case.
If not coded M03 or M04, a teen parent or a teen child under 18 years old is NOT eligible for the 2-month exclusion.
If the gross income test is passed, deductions are allowed from the earned income of each individual, including sanctioned or penalized individuals, if appropriate.
This presentation will help you to correctly apply KTAP earned income deductions and the two-month earned income exclusion.

6. Timely Reporting
The employment must be reported timely (within 10 days), and must be verified in order to receive the 2-month earned income exclusion.
If the individual fails to verify the income, discontinue the KTAP case for failure to return verification, and the exclusion is not given.
If the individual provides all the needed verification in the adverse action period, and the KTAP case is reinstated, the 2-month exclusion of wages is allowed.
If the gross income test is passed, deductions are allowed from the earned income of each individual, including sanctioned or penalized individuals, if appropriate.
This presentation will help you to correctly apply KTAP earned income deductions and the two-month earned income exclusion.

7. Applying the Exclusion
The first month of exclusion begins when the K-TAP check would be affected had the earnings not been excluded.
For example: Nelson is employed on the 10th of January and reports it to the agency timely. His 2-month exclusion begins the following month of February, as the change could be made prior to cut-off, and would end in March.
Or if Nelson began working on the 27th of January and reported it timely, his excluded months would be March and April, as the change couldn’t be made until after January cut-off.
If the gross income test is passed, deductions are allowed from the earned income of each individual, including sanctioned or penalized individuals, if appropriate.
This presentation will help you to correctly apply KTAP earned income deductions and the two-month earned income exclusion.

8. Applying the Exclusion
Two full months earnings are excluded regardless of the amount of income, number of hours, or the type of work.
The 2 months income excluded are consecutive, not cumulative.
The 2-month earned income exclusion applies to only one job.
If an individual chooses to use the exclusion for one job, and then gets a second job, the $30 and 1/3 or $30 disregard may be applied to the second job.
Track the 2-month earned income exclusion manually on form PAFS-116, Supplement A, Tracking Log.

9. Do NOT wait for verification before entering wages on KAMES!
KAMES System Entry
Do NOT wait for verification before entering wages on KAMES!
Show the months the earned income is excluded in the “KTAP/ET Exclude Begin” and “End” fields.
If the gross income test is passed, deductions are allowed from the earned income of each individual, including sanctioned or penalized individuals, if appropriate.
This presentation will help you to correctly apply KTAP earned income deductions and the two-month earned income exclusion.
KAMES excludes the income from the IM case, and counts it in the FS accordingly.