Ineligible Non-citizen Parent Examples

Important: Current Income Disregard and MAP values must be used in calculations. Income Disregard and MAP values in the examples below may not reflect current values.

Situation #1

Married couple, father has legal non-citizen status. Mother is an undocumented non-citizen. They have three children, two are citizens and the other child is an undocumented non-citizen. The father has no income. The mother is employed and earns $675 per month. None of the children have income.This is an "Employable" AU of 3, a non-AU of 2, and a "family" of 5. The budget computationcomputation shows:

Gross Earned Income of ineligible non-citizen parent

Less $225 Income Disregard

Equals Net Earned Income

Less 50% Earned Income Disregard

Net Nonexempt Earned Income

 

MAP for 5

Less Total Nonexempt Income

Potential Grant

 

MAP for 3 (AU MAP)

Grant Amount (Lesser of Potential Grant and MAP for 3)

$675

-225

$450

$225

$225

 

$980

-225

$755

 

$723

$723

Situation #2

Married couple, mother has legal non-citizen status. Father is an undocumented non-citizen. They have two children, both are citizens. One of the citizen children has a verified diabetic special need and receives a special need allowance of $15 monthly. The father is employed and earns $475 monthly. The mother and children have no income other than CalWORKs. This is an "Employable" AU of 3, a non-AU of 1 and a "family" of 4. The budget computationcomputation shows:

Gross Earned Income of ineligible non-citizen parent

Less $225 Income Disregard

Equals Net Earned Income

Less 50% Earned Income Disregard

Net Nonexempt Earned Income

 

MAP for 4 PLUS Special Needs

Less Total Nonexempt Income

Potential Grant

 

MAP for 3 PLUS Special Needs (AU MAP)

Grant Amount (Lesser of Potential Grant and MAP for 3)

$475

-225

$250

$125

$125

 

877

-125

$752

 

$738

$738

Situation #3

Married couple, mother and father are both undocumented non-citizens. The mother has one separate child who is in the AU. They have two other children; one is an undocumented non-citizen and the other has no basis of deprivation. The mother is pregnant and in her last trimester. The mother is employed and earns $450 monthly. The father is employed full-time and earns $800 monthly. This is an Employable AU of 1, a non-AU of 4 and a "family" of 5. The budget computationcomputation shows:

Gross Earned Income of ineligible non-citizen parents

Less $225 Income Disregard

Equals Net Earned Income

Less 50% Earned Income Disregard

Net Nonexempt Earned Income

 

MAP for 5 plus Special Needs

Less Total Nonexempt Income

Potential Grant

 

MAP for 1 (AU MAP)

Grant Amount (Lesser of Potential Grant and MAP for 1)

$1250

-225

$1025

$512.50

$512

 

$1027

-512

$515

 

$359

$359

Situation #4

Married couple, mother and father are both undocumented non-citizens. They have three citizen children. The father is employed and earns $450 monthly. The mother is employed and earns $400 per month. This is an "Employable" AU of 3, a non-AU of 2 and a "family" of 5. The budget computationcomputation shows:

Gross Earned Income of ineligible non-citizen parents

Less $225 Income Disregard

Equals Net Earned Income

Less 50% Earned Income Disregard

Net Nonexempt Earned Income

 

MAP for 5

Less Total Nonexempt Income

Potential Grant

 

MAP for 3 (AU MAP)

Grant Amount (Lesser of Potential Grant and MAP for 3)

$850

-225

$625

$312.50

$312

 

$980

-312

$668

 

$723

$668

Situation #5

Married couple, mother is an undocumented non-citizen and father is a citizen. They have three children, one is a citizen and two are undocumented non-citizens. The mother is employed and earns $400 monthly. The father is disabled and receives State Disability Insurance (SDI) of $625 monthly. This is an "Employable" AU of 2, a non-AU of 3 and a "family" of 5. The budget computationcomputation shows:

Disability-based Income

Less $225 Income Disregard

Net Disability-based Income

Gross Earned Income of ineligible non-citizen parent

Less any remaining $225 Income Disregard

Equals Net Earned Income

Less 50% Earned Income Disregard

Net Nonexempt Earned Income

Plus any remaining Disability-based income

Total Nonexempt Income

 

MAP for 5

Less Total Nonexempt Income

Potential Grant

 

MAP for 2 (AU MAP)

Grant Amount (Lesser of Potential Grant and AU MAP)

$625

-225

$400

$400

-0

$400

$200

$200

+400

$600

 

$980

-600

$380

 

$584

$380

Situation #6

Married couple, father is an undocumented non-citizen, mother is a legal non-citizen. They have two citizen children, and two undocumented non-citizen children. The father receives DIB of $400 monthly. The mother is unemployed and receives $400 per month from UIB. The children have no income. This is an "Employable" AU of 3, a non-AU of 3 and a "family" of 6. The budget computationcomputation shows:

Disability-based income

Less $225 Income Disregard

Net Disability-based Income

Plus any Unearned Income

Total Nonexempt Income

 

MAP for 6

Less Total Nonexempt Income

Potential Grant

 

MAP for 3 (AU MAP)

Grant Amount (Lesser of Potential Grant and AU MAP)

$400

-225

$175

+400

$575

 

$1101

-575

$526

 

$723

$526

Situation #7

Unmarried couple, father and mother are both undocumented non-citizens. They have two citizen children. The mother receives UIB of $400 monthly. The father is employed part time and receives $525 per month. This is an "Employable" AU of 2, a non-AU of 2 and a "family" of 4. The budgetbudget shows:

Gross Earned Income of ineligible non-citizen parent

Less the $225 Income Disregard

Equals Net Earned Income

Less 50% Earned Income Disregard

Net Nonexempt Earned Income

Plus Unearned Income

Total Nonexempt Income

 

MAP for 4

Less Total Nonexempt Income

Potential Grant

 

MAP for 2 (AU MAP)

Grant Amount (Lesser of Potential Grant and AU MAP)

$525

-225

$300

$150

$150

+400

$550

 

$862

-550

$312

 

$584

$312

Situation #8

Unmarried couple, undocumented non-citizen father and mother. They have three citizen children. The father has earnings of $775 monthly. The family receives free rent and utilities. This is an "Employable" AU of 3, a non-AU of 2 and a "family" of 5. The budget computationcomputation shows:

Gross Earned Income of ineligible non-citizen parent

Less the $225 Income Disregard

Equals Net Earned Income

Less 50% Earned Income Disregard

Net Nonexempt Earned Income

Plus any Unearned Income (In-kind rent $337 and utilities $58 for 5)

Total Nonexempt Income

 

MAP for 5

Less Total Nonexempt Income

Potential Grant

 

MAP for 3 (AU MAP)

Grant Amount (Lesser of Potential Grant and AU MAP)

$775

-225

$550

$275

$275

+395

$670

 

$980

-670

$310

 

$723

$310

Related Topics

General Information

Ineligible Non-citizen Parent Unit

Computation of Income to the AU

Case Situations of Ineligible Non-citizen Child(ren) Living in the Home