Earned Income Disregards and Counters EAEDC

Earned Income Disregards Overview

The Income Disregards page, located in the Assessed Person Income section of the workflow, records information about Earned Income Disregards (EID) and includes:

disregard counters:

  • TAFDC 100%- shows the 1st and 2nd TAFDC cyclical payments for each month indicating whether the 100% EID was used, and
  • EAEDC 30 1/3- shows the months the client has received EAEDC with the $30 and 1/3 EID,
  • a feature to manually Suspend Disregards, and
  • a feature to manually reset the 100% EID for TAFDC, if BEACON does not correctly do so when applicable.

You must review the rules for the applicable earned income disregard prior to manually suspending a disregard or adjusting the disregard counter.

See Eligibility for the $30 and One-Third and $30 Earned Income Disregard

How do I Adjust the EAEDC $30 and 1/3 Earned Income Disregard Counter?

The start date of the counter is automatically established. When the client has received a full benefit month of payments that includes the $30 & 1/3 EID, the counter will be updated indicating Yes under Countable for that month. 

If an adjustment to the number of months used is needed, the case manager can make an adjustment for each applicable month of benefits issued. 

When changing a benefit month from Countable Yes to No or No to Yes, you will select the applicable Override Reason. Some Override Reasons are system entered and others are user entered and are available for selection. The chart below identifies each:

User Entered System Entered
Retroactive Benefits Issued Conversion Balance*
Reporting Delay Cyclical Benefit Issued
Department Delay System Error
Appeal Decision  

Note: The Conversion Balance is the number of months with the $30 and 1/3 EID the client had received prior to the updates to the Income Disregard page. Payments received prior to the August 2025 project release date will not be reflected as individual months.

After carefully reviewing the case to determine which months need to be added or removed from the counter, on the Income Disregards page you must:

  1. Select EAEDC 30 1/3 (the months will display below),
  2. Change Countable to Yes or No for each month that needs adjusting,
  3. Select the applicable Override Reason,
  4. Click Save, and
  5. Click Next or Finish (the Entered By section will display your wel-ID). View/HideView/Hide

    Income Disregards

Once all adjustments are made, complete an Interview Wrapup to be authorized by:

  • the case manager,
  • a supervisor, and 
  • a director or assistant director.

If no disregard counter has been established due to a good cause delay in reporting the earnings or a system error and the income no longer exists, you must manually add the $30 & 1/3 EID counter and any benefit months the client received that should have counted toward their four months of $30 & 1/3 or 8 months of $30 disregard. To add the months:

  1. select EAEDC $30 1/3 from the Type drop down, and
  2. enter the applicable start date for the counter (this defaults to the current date but must be changed to the date the employment began to open up the previous cyclical payments). View/HideView/Hide

    Start Date for Counter

  3. follow the steps in the previous section to add each month that should have counted toward the disregard counter. View/HideView/Hide

    Manually Add Disregard Months

See Eligibility for the $30 and One-Third and $30 Earned Income Disregard

When do I Use the Suspend Disregards Feature?

Most rules governing the suspension of disregards are automatically applied to the case based on whether the client meets the program rules to receive the disregard. In specific circumstances the disregards must be manually suspended.

The Suspend Disregards feature on the Income Disregards page is used to manually suspend the earned income disregards in the rare circumstance it is needed. You must follow the guidance for each disregard to determine when and if manually suspending the disregards is appropriate.

See Eligibility for the $30 and One-Third and $30 Earned Income Disregard

How do I Suspend the Earned Income Disregards?

To suspend the disregard for an applicable situation:

  1. Select Suspend Disregards,
  2. Enter the Start date for the period to be suspended(this will default to the current date),
  3. Enter the End date for the period to be suspended,
  4. Click Save, and
  5. Click Next or Finish. View/HideView/Hide

    Suspend Earned Income Disregards

Once finished, you must complete an Interview Wrapup to be authorized by:

  • the case manager,
  • a supervisor, and
  • a director or assistant director.

Last Updated: August 14, 2025