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COMAR 10.09.24.01-.16 4 State of Maryland Medical Assistance Manual Revised July 2012
by reason of the performance of active duty in the uniformed service of the United States is not considered absent from the home. The following relatives and their spouses meet this definition: father, mother, brother, sister, stepfather, stepmother, stepbrother, stepsister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew or niece, and persons of preceding generations as denoted by the prefix of grand, great, and great-great; persons who legally adopt a child or his parent as well as the natural and other legally adopted children of these persons; and other relatives of adoptive parents in accordance with State law. A caretaker relative retains his status as a caretaker relative when the only child or children in his custody receives SSI benefits. This is the only instance when a caretaker relative without children in an assistance unit qualifies as a caretaker relative.
(b) "Continued absence from the home" means that the parent is out of the home, the nature of the absence either interrupts or terminates the parent's functioning as a provider of maintenance, physical care, or guidance for the child, and the known or indefinite duration of the absence precludes counting on the parent's performance of his function in planning for the present support or care of the child.
(c) "Incapacitation" means that a parent has a mental or physical defect, illness, or impairment which eliminates the parent's ability to support or care for the child and is expected to last for a period of at least 30 days.
(d) "Principal wage earner parent" means whichever parent, in a home in which both parents of a child are living, earned a greater amount of income in the period specified below:
(i) For initial eligibility, the 24 months immediately preceding the month in which application is filed on the basis of the unemployment of a parent;
(ii) For eligibility for each subsequent month of the certification period, the 24 months immediately preceding the current month.
(e) Unemployed Parent.
(i) "Unemployed parent" means the principal wage earner parent who:
(aa) Has been unemployed for at least 30 days before the receipt of Medical Assistance; and
(bb) Has not left a job or refused to seek or accept employment without good cause within 30 days of the date of application.
(ii) The condition of unemployment is met when the parent is employed less than 100 hours per month; or is employed 100 hours or more per month, if the parent's work is intermittent and the excess hours are of a temporary nature, as evidenced by the fact that the work hours were under the standard for the two previous months and are expected to be under the standard during the next month.
(10-1) "Carrier" means a: