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CODE OF COLORADO REGULATIONS 10 CCR 2505-10 8.100 Medical Services Board

150 b. apply the resource and income criteria specified in section 8.100.5; c. subtract the 1972 disregard amount from the income; d. consider the remainder against the current appropriate SSI benefit level. 8.100.6.G. Individuals Eligible in 1973 1. Medical Assistance must be provided to ABD persons who are receiving mandatory state supplementary payments (SSP). Such persons are those with income below their December 1973 minimum income level (MIL). 2. Medical Assistance must be provided to a person who was eligible for Medical Assistance in December 1973 as an inpatient of a medical facility, who continues to meet the December 1973 eligibility criteria for institutionalized persons and who remains institutionalized. 3. Medical Assistance must be provided to a person who was eligible for Medical Assistance in December 1973 as an “essential spouse” of an AND or AB financial assistance recipient, and who continues to be in the grant and continues to meet the December 1973 eligibility criteria. Except for such persons who were grandfathered-in for continued assistance, essential spouses included in assistance grants after December 1973 are not eligible for Medical Assistance. 8.100.6.H. Eligibility for Certain Disabled Widow(er)s 1. Medical Assistance shall be provided retroactive to July 1, 1986, to qualified disabled widow(er)s who lost SSI and/or state supplementation due to the 1983 change in the actuarial reduction formula prescribed in section 134 of P.L. No. 98 21. In order for these widow(er)s to qualify, these individuals must: a. have been continuously entitled to Title II benefits since December 1983; b. have been disabled widow(er)s in January 1984; c. have established entitlement to Title II benefits prior to age 60;