Room or board income received by an income security client is EXCLUDED in the following situations:
- The client rents or offers for rent fewer than 2 rooms in the housing unit that he himself occupies;
- The client takes in, on an occasional and temporary basis, another person or another family (emergency situation or mutual family support). This includes, for example:
- Receiving a visitor;
- Emergency situation;
- Temporary relocation situation;
- The client offers 2 or more rooms for rent and rents one room to an adult or to one of the adult members of a client family who is his ascendant, descendant, brother or sister;
- The client offers 2 or more rooms for rent and rents a room to a person who provides continuous care to or receives continuous care from the renter or a member of his/her family.
Direct-line ASCENDANTS and DESCENDANTS are the following:
- Father and mother;
- Grandfather and grandmother;
- Child;
- Grandchild.
Example 1 – INCOME FROM A ROOMER, 2 ROOMS OFFERED FOR RENT BUT ONLY ONE ROOM IS RENTED
Lise is a single adult client of the Income Security Program. She has 3 dependent children. She offers 2 rooms for rent but just one is rented. The roomer is an individual client but is not related to her.
Result: no room rental income is included for calculation purposes, because just 1 room is rented; the income for the room bringing the smallest amount is excluded from the calculations.
Example 2 – ROOM INCOME FROM AN ASCENDANT CLIENT
Ms. Papatie is a client of the Income Security Program. She has one dependent child. Ms. Papatie rents 3 rooms, one to each of the following:
- Her father, who is an Income Security Program client;
- 1 person who is an Income Security Program client but is not related to her;
- 1 person who is working and is not related to her.
Result: the income from 2 of the 3 roomers is included for calculation purposes.
- The income from her father’s room is excluded from the calculations because he is a client and ascendant. This room thus becomes the one that brings in the smallest income. The income from the other 2 rooms is included for calculation purposes.
- The room incomes for the client who is not related to Ms. Papatie and for the worker who is not related to her are included for calculation purposes.
Example 3 – BOARD INCOME FROM 3 DESCENDANT CLIENTS
Mr. Kistabish is a single adult client of the Income Security Program. He provides room and board (total of 4 rooms) for rent to 4 people:
- Three income security clients, all sons of Mr. Kistabish;
- One boarder is his cousin, also an income security client.
Result: Only the income for the cousin is considered for calculation purposes, at $125.
- No room and board income is calculated for the sons of Mr. Kistabish because they are his direct-line descendants.
Income to include for calculation purposes, according to the number of rooms offered for rent and the type of roomer
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Number of rooms offered for rent by a person who is an income security client |
Number of roomers or boarders related to the renter as follows: ascendant, descendant, brother or sister |
Number of roomers or boarders providing continuous care to or receiving continuous care from the renter or a member of his family |
Number of roomers or boarders not related to the renter |
Number of incomes to include for calculation purposes |
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1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
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2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
2 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
2 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
|
3 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
3 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
2 |
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4 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
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4 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
1 |