FINANCIAL AFFIDAVIT
ANNUAL INCOME DESCRIPTION: Enter the dollar amount only (no cents), which represents the total combined annual income of the customer and any individuals with which the customer is financially interdependent. If annual income is unknown, multiply the estimated monthly income by 12. As defined by the DMHSAS eligibility criteria, income includes total annual cash receipts before taxes from all sources, with the exceptions noted below: Income includes money, wages, and salaries before any deductions; net receipts from non-farm self-employment (receipts from a person’s own unincorporated business, professional enterprise, or partnership, after deductions for business expenses); net receipts from farm self employment (receipts from a farm which one operates as an owner, renter, or sharecropper, after deductions for farm operating expenses); regular payments from social security, railroad retirement, unemployment compensation, strike benefits from union funds, workers’ compensation, veterans’ payments, public assistance (including Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and non-federally-funded General Assistance or General Relief money payments), and training stipends; alimony, child support, and military family allotments or other regular support from an absent family member or someone not living in the household; private pensions, government employee pensions (including military retirement pay), and regular insurance or annuity payments; college or university scholarships, grants, fellowships, and assistantships; and dividends, interest, net rental income, net royalties, periodic receipts from estates or trusts, and net gambling or lottery winnings. Income does not include non-cash benefits, such as the employer-paid or union-paid portion of health insurance or other employee fringe benefits, food or housing received in lieu of wages, the value of food and fuel produced and consumed on farms, the imputed value of rent from owner-occupied non-farm or farm housing, and such federal non-cash benefit programs as Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, school lunches, loans, and housing assistance.
I certify that my income, or lack of income, has been reported in truth and entirety. I understand that if my income circumstances change int eh future, I am required to report the change. I also understand that knowingly making false claims regarding these statements is an offense punishable by law.