Rule 23-104-9.6 - Payments for Services Performed in a Sheltered Workshop or Work Activities CenterA. These payments are defined as follows:1. Payment for services performed in a sheltered workshop or work activities center are what an individual receives for participating in a program designed to help him become self-supporting.a) A sheltered workshop is a nonprofit organization or institution whose purpose is: 1) To carry out a recognized program of rehabilitation for handicapped workers; and/or2) To provide such individuals with remunerative employment or other occupational rehabilitating activity of an educational or therapeutic nature.b) A work activities center is: 1) A sheltered workshop, or2) A physically separated department of a sheltered workshop having an identifiable program and separate supervision and records.3) A work activities center is planned and designed exclusively to provide therapeutic activities for handicapped workers whose physical or mental impairment is so severe as to make their productivity capacity inconsequential. (a) Therapeutic activities are custodial activities such as activities where the focus is on teaching basic living skills and other purposeful activity so long as work production is not the main purpose.B. These payments are treated as follows: 1. Payments for such services are a type of earned income and are counted when received or when set aside for the person's use.23 Miss. Code. R. 104-9.6
Social Security Act §1902 (r)(2); 42 CFR §435.601(b) (Rev 1994).