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Title 5: Centrally Administered Programs Page 30 Iowa Department of Human Services Employees’ Manual Chapter E: Healthy and Well Kids in Iowa (hawk-i) Nonfinancial Eligibility Factors Revised July 3, 2009 Family Size Family Size Legal reference: 441 IAC 86.2(3) Family size is determined by counting all persons living together who are children and parents of those children as defined below. EXCEPTION: Parents or children who are SSI recipients are not counted in the family size, regardless of their relationship to the other family members. Children A child under the age of 19 and any siblings under the age of 19 of whole or half blood or adoptive shall be considered together unless the child or a sibling is married or emancipated. Unborn children are not counted in determining family size. Children, other than SSI recipients, receiving Medicaid are counted in the family size but are not eligible for hawk-i coverage. Parents Any parent living with the child under the age of 19 shall be included in the family size. This includes the biological parent, stepparent, or adoptive parent of the child and is not dependent upon whether the parents are married to each other. Parents, other than SSI recipients, receiving Medicaid are counted in the family size. Emancipated Children A child is considered emancipated and is not counted in the family size with the rest of the family when the child is married or has been married, as long as the marriage has not been legally annulled. When an emancipated child who lives with the child’s parents or siblings applies for hawk-i, the parents or siblings of the emancipated child are not counted in determining the size of the emancipated child’s family. In addition, the income of parents and siblings of the emancipated child shall not be counted in determining hawk-i eligibility of the emancipated child. If the emancipated child lives with a spouse, the spouse, regardless of age, is counted in determining the size of the emancipated child’s family and any income of the spouse is counted.