Are payments received as a result of an auction or sale for the purposes of paying off creditors, etc. counted as income?
Any payments received in a lump sum such as that which results from an auction or insurance settlement are not counted as income since they are not received on a regular basis. When lump sum payments are put into a savings account and the household regularly draws from that account for living expenses, the amount withdrawn is counted as income. Members of a household become temporarily separated when the father moves to another town to take a temporary job. He intends to rejoin the rest of the household when the job ends in a few months. During his temporary absence he has also taken one of the children, who is enrolled in the school in the new town. How should the application for the child who has accompanied the father be completed with respect to household composition and income? When family members are living apart temporarily, the application for each part of the household – the part that stayed, and the part that is temporarily living apart – should be completed the same way (unl
