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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".06" citation="COMAR 07.03.07.06" title_num="07" subtitle_num="03" chapter_num="07" heading="Excluded Resources.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Excluded resources include:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>The value of burial spaces for the individual, the individual's spouse, or any member of the individual's immediate family;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Burial funds as described in §B of this regulation;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Irrevocable burial contracts as described in §C of this regulation;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Vehicles owned by the individual;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>Life insurance policies;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>Payments under Title I of Public Law 100-383, the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, or Title II of Public Law 100-383, the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands Restitution Act, received by individuals of Japanese ancestry and Aleuts;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>Payments made from the Agent Orange Settlement Fund or any other fund established pursuant to the settlement in the Agent Orange product liability litigation;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(8)">
      <text>Payments excluded under federal law; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(9)">
      <text>Trust fund principal when the individual has no access or only restricted access to the principal of the trust.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Burial Funds.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>In this section, “burial funds” means a revocable burial contract, burial trust, or other burial arrangement, or separately identified fund that is clearly designated as set aside for the individual's or spouse's burial expense.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Up to $1,500 each of burial funds shall be excluded from resources.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Funds set aside for burial shall be kept separate from other resources not set aside for burial. Burial funds mixed with other resources shall be treated as nonexcluded resources.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Interest earned on excluded burial funds is also excluded from income and resources if it is left to accumulate and become part of the separately identified burial fund.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>The burial fund exclusion shall be reduced by:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>The face value of insurance policies if the cash surrender value of the policies has been excluded from resources; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Amounts in an irrevocable burial contract, or other irrevocable agreement, available to meet burial expenses.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Irrevocable Burial Contracts.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>“Irrevocable burial contract” means an agreement that does not provide for a refund and that is clearly designated as providing for the individual's or spouse's burial expense.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>An irrevocable burial contract is fully excluded regardless of value.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Interest earned on irrevocable burial funds is also excluded from income and resources.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>