475 NAC 2-004.01E1
Some employers provide travel advances to cover the travel costs of new employees who must journey to the location of their new employment. These payments are excluded as reimbursements. Receipt of travel advances will not affect the determination of when a household is destitute.
If the travel advance is an advance of wages later earned by the employee and the advance is by written contract, the travel advance must be counted as income.
The receipt of a wage advance for travel costs of a new employee does not affect the determination of whether subsequent payments from the employer are from a new source of income, nor whether a household must be considered destitute.
Example: If a household applies on May 10, has received a $50 advance for travel from its new employer on May 1 which by written contract is an advance on wages, but will not receive any other wages from the employer until May 30, the household must be considered destitute. The May 30 payment must be disregarded, but the wage advance received before the date of application must be counted as income.