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Louisiana Medicaid Eligibility Manual

Eligibility Factors Issued March 31, 2026

Page 10 of I-1400 Replacing October 16, 2025 Revised/added text indicated by underscore

Deleted text indicated by “” assistance or payment; Examples: • SSI; • Family Independence Temporary Assistance Program (FITAP) cash assistance; • Veteran’s Administration (VA) pensions; or • In-kind support and maintenance. • Grants, scholarships or fellowships for tuition and fees or other expenses necessary to the securing of an education at educational or vocational institutions; • Tax refunds; • Income paid by a household member to comply with court-ordered support payments or payments enforced under Title IV-D; • Foster care payments received for providing care to an ineligible child; • Up to the maximum allowable limit per-month total earned income of a child who is a student. When the child makes the income available to the household, the excluded income cannot exceed the per-calendar-year limit. Refer to Z-100 Maximum SSI Student Child Earned Income Exclusion Amounts for limits; • Disaster assistance; • Work expenses of the blind; and • Income necessary and used for an SSA-approved plan for achieving self-support.

All income from a non-citizen sponsor is countable, except: • Housing assistance, when the non-citizen is living in the house for which the sponsor receives housing assistance; • Disaster assistance; and • Energy assistance

I-1424.2 Income Deeming Procedures

Refer to Z-1500 Deeming Allowance.