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 a stepparent,  step-siblings,  an essential person, and  parents of a parenting minor.

While parents residing in the home with a dependent child do not have to be included in the assistance unit, parents living in the home with a dependent child are provisionally included for the purpose of determining financial eligibility. If an individual resides in the same home as his/her spouse, the spouse must be provisionally included in any case that includes that individual.

The following individuals must be excluded from any Alliance unit:

 persons eligible for Medicaid,  persons enrolled in any part of Medicare,  persons enrolled in any third party health insurance,  children under the age of 21 (children may be included provisionally to determine financial eligibility for the Alliance application, but may not be eligible as an Alliance enrollee)  fugitive felons,  probation or parole violators,  persons penalized for misrepresenting their residence to receive assistance in two or more states,  persons who refuse to provide information needed to determine their eligibility, and  persons included in another medical assistance unit,  persons who say they are US citizens but have failed to document US citizenship after being given reasonable opportunity and have been terminated from Medicaid, and  persons who say they are Qualified aliens who meet the Medicaid immigration requirements but have failed to document their status after being given reasonable opportunity and have been terminated from Medicaid.

In addition, the following individuals may be excluded;

• a child that the applicant/recipient has asked to excluded (the child would be included provisionally for income determination purposes; if the child has income, the Alliance applicant may ask that the child’s needs and income not be considered in the Alliance determination),  a parent whose needs are met by his/her spouse who is not a natural or adoptive parent of the dependent child and who chooses to be excluded, and  a parent under age 21 who chooses to be excluded because his/her needs are met by his/her parents with whom s/he resides

Residency 4.3.2

To be eligible for program benefits, a person must be a presently living in the District of Columbia voluntarily and not for a temporary purpose and have no current intention of moving out of the District. See Part IV: Chapter 2, Non-Financial Eligibility Requirements: Residency, for additional information on establishing and verifying residency eligibility.