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December, 2004 Table of Contents Update. Part 9, Burial Assistance and Part 10, Interim Disability Assistance, are combined as Part 9, Special Local Programs. Burial Assistance is covered in Part 9, Chapter 1. IDA is covered in Part 9, Chapter 2. December, 2004 I/Chapter 1 Exhibits 1 and 2 are updated with legislation related to ESA programs. December, 2004 I/2.2.1 Expands the description of Program Eligibility criteria for Refugee-Related Medicaid. December, 2004 I/2.2.2 Updates the ACEDS MA Program Types table to show that Transitional Medicaid should be processed under the AR program and the QI-2 program is deleted. December, 2004 I/2.2.3 Clarifies the Medicaid program assignment of disabled children. December, 2004 I/2.2.4 Outlines some exceptions to placement of AR/AX Medicaid recipients in managed care. December, 2004 I/2.2.6 Updates instructions on registration of Medicaid recertifications, requiring that all signed Medicaid recertifications be registered in ACEDS as soon as they are received. December, 2004 I/2.2.8 Updates the name of the DC EPSDT program from DC Healthy Tots and Teens to Health Check. December, 2004 III/Chapter 1 Establishes a new policy that an application for all programs except IDA is considered filed on the date it is received at any ESA center. December, 2004 III/1.4.1 Eliminates the requirement that a major parent sign the MA application of a pregnant, parenting, or emancipated minor. December, 2004 III/1.8 Updates interviewing requirements of customers that complete specialized MA applications. Persons applying for QM using the Buy-In mail-in application do not need to complete an interview. Persons applying for AR/AX using the DCHF application do not need to complete an interview.

December, 2004 III/4.3 Clarifies that residents of shelters for battered women and children who meet the criteria for expedited Food Stamps can receive expedited benefits even if they already received food stamps that month in a Food Stamp case that included the alleged abuser. December, 2004 III/4.5 Clarifies that if the issuance of expedited Food Stamp benefits is delayed because of an agency error in screening or processing the application for expedited service, ESA is accountable for failing to provide expedited benefits timely. December, 2004 IV/1.3 Updates definition of a “ward,” removing bullet saying a ward does not live with his/her parent. December, 2004 IV/1.3 Clarifies that a child with an adoption assistance agreement is eligible for Medicaid until age 21.