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Medical Services – Glossary

MS Manual 09/01/26

the eligible individual's spouse; or a natural or adopted child of an ineligible parent or the ineligible parent's spouse who lives in the same household with the eligible individual, and is: • not married; • under age 18; or • under age 22 and a student regularly attending school, college, or training designed to prepare him/her for a paying job. Home schooling is considered a form of regular school attendance.

Independence Account – An account approved by the department that consists solely of savings, and dividends or other gains derived from those savings, from income earned from paid employment after the initial date on which a person began receiving medical assistance under Workers with Disabilities. Ineligible Spouse – A married individual who is not eligible for or receiving assistance as aged, blind, or as an individual with a disability and is living in the household with their aged, blind, or disabled spouse. Initial Resource Assessment – An evaluation of resources and computation of the spousal share of resources at the beginning of the first continuous period of institutionalization (this does not apply if entry into the nursing facility was prior to 09/30/89). Compute on the DCO-710. In-Kind Income – Third party payments which do not result in an individual’s direct receipt of a basic need (food, clothing or shelter), but provides an in-kind item that an individual can apply to meet his/her basic needs by sale or conversion. In-Kind Support and Maintenance – Third party payments that result directly to an individual’s fulfillment of a basic need such as food, clothing and/or shelter. Inquiry – A request for information. Institutionalized Spouse (IS) – An individual who is an inpatient in a medical institution or nursing facility, who remains (or is likely to remain) in the institution or facility for 30 consecutive days, and who is legally married to a spouse who is not in a medical institution or nursing facility. The marriage must be verified and documented.