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Louisiana Medicaid Eligibility Manual Eligibility Factors

Reissued August 11, 2025

Page 13 of I-1530 Replacing February 17, 2025

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I-1634 Earned Income Tax Credits (EITC) and Child Tax Credits (CTC) for treatment as a resource.

If a portion of the funds that have been set aside to pay for future expenses is used for some other purpose, the funds are income at the earliest of the following points: in the month that it is spent, or the month the individual no longer intends to use the funds for education.

Exception: Do not count any student financial assistance provided under Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 or Bureau of Indian Affairs regardless of use. There is no time limit on the exclusion.

Do not count as income any interest or dividends paid on unspent educational assistance. However, any interest or dividends paid on unspent funds not intended to be used for education is counted as unearned income in month of receipt.

ENERGY ASSISTANCE

Do not count utility supplement payments made from Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), local housing authorities, or governmental housing programs, whether they are in the form of cash, in kind, or vendor payment.

Count as unearned income any other payments made directly to the beneficiary.

FELLOWSHIPS

Refer to Educational Assistance.

FOSTER CARE PAYMENTS

Count the part of the payment provided to meet the needs of the foster child as unearned income to the foster child.

Do not allow the $20 disregard because foster care payments are based on the need of the child.

Count any part of the payment meant for the foster care provider's own personal use (such as service or incentive pay) as unearned income to