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HIFA—Health Insurance Flexibility and Accountability waiver HIPAA—Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 HARD CARD–The Montana Access to Health card. This is a Medicaid recipient’s permanent Medicaid ID card. Each recipient receives his/her own card, and should retain the card indefinitely, even if his/her Medicaid case closes. Health Insurance Premium Payment System (HIPPS): Payment of cost-effective individual or group health plan premiums as a Medicaid benefit HISPANIC OR LATINO—A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central America, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race. The term, “Spanish origin,” can be used in addition to “Hispanic or Latino.” HOME—The principal place of residence of an individual and/or his or her spouse and/or his or her dependent child(ren). Principal place of residence (ACA/Family): the family setting in which the child lives with a caretaker relative who provides day-to-day care and control of the child. For resource purposes: a home is the principal place of residence, which is owned or being purchased, and which includes any building and the land upon which it is located, the land that appertains to the home and all the buildings and/or mobile homes located thereon. A mobile home (or mobile homes) located on real property may be excluded as part of a home if lived in by the individual and/or his or her spouse and/or his or her dependent child(ren). (See definition of principal place of residence.) HOMELESS INDIVIDUAL - An individual who lacks a fixed and regular nighttime residence or an individual whose primary nighttime residence is: 1. A supervised shelter designed to provide temporary accommodation (such as welfare hotel or congregate shelter). 2. A halfway house or similar institution that provides temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized. 3. Temporary (no more than 90 days) accommodation in a shelter or church. 4. A place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings (a hallway, a bus station, a lobby or similar places). HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS—Furniture, appliances, clothing and personal items owned by the filing unit. HUB—Federal data services portal that states will use for electronic verification. I ICF—Intermediate Care Facility ICF/IID- Intermediate Care Facility for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (formerly known as ICR/MR) ICF/MR—Intermediate Care Facility for the Mentally Retarded (changed to ICF/IID) IDD- Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities IEVS—Income and Eligibility Verification System IIM—Individual Indian Monies INA—Immigration and Naturalization Act IRA—Individual Retirement Account IRS—Internal Revenue Service