Examples of ABLE Act in a sentence
No. The ABLE Act limits the opportunity to one ABLE account per eligible individual.
Account contributors or designated beneficiaries are limited, by the ABLE Act, to change the way their money is invested in the account up to two times per year.
For the first time in public policy, the ABLE Act recognizes the extra and significant costs of living with a disability.
ABLE Accounts, which are tax-advantaged savings accounts for individuals with disabilities and their families, will be created as a result of the passage of the ABLE Act of 2014.
The final version of the ABLE Act limits eligibility to individuals with significant disabilities with an age of onset of disability before turning 26 years of age.
However, for individuals with disabilities who are recipients of SSI and Medicaid, the ABLE Act sets some further limitations.
Treatment of ABLE account in HUD programs: Section 103 of the ABLE Act mandates that an individual’s ABLE account (specifically, its account balance, contributions to the account, and distributions from the account) is excluded/disregarded when determining the designated beneficiary’s eligibility and continued occupancy under certain federal means-tested programs.
Given that the ABLE Act creates a federally mandated exclusion for ABLE accounts applicable to HUD programs, in determining a family’s income, HUD will exclude amounts in the individual’s ABLE account pursuant to 24 CFR 5.609(c)(17).
More information about the ABLE Act can be found online at www.treasurer.ca.gov/able.
The discussion of the Pennsylvania tax treatment is based on the Program’s understanding of the Pennsylvania ABLE Act and Pennsylvania tax law.