Excludes up to $5,000 of income from health promotion or disease prevention work from eligibility determinations for NJ FamilyCare, WFNJ, and NJ SNAP.
This bill requires the Department of Human Services to exclude the first $5,000 earned during a calendar year as a community outreach worker for a health promotion or disease prevention program from income eligibility determinations for the NJ FamilyCare program, the Work First New Jersey Program, and the New Jersey Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). This exclusion aims to support individuals engaged in outreach activities such as communicating public health information and connecting people to appropriate health and social services.
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