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FINANCIAL ELIGIBILITY: Retroactive Medicaid coverage may be for any or all of the three Months immediately prior to the application or retro coverage request date, depending on when services were received. The client must meet all financial and non-financial eligibility requirements for each retro month. The applicant does not need to be eligible in the application month to be eligible for retroactive Medicaid coverage. As long they were eligible in each of the retro months, coverage for those months is provided. Use actual income received and expenses incurred in the retroactive month or months when determining retroactive eligibility. For programs with a resource limit, if the applicant is resource eligible any day of the month, he/she is considered resource eligible for the entire month. NOTE: Citizenship/qualified alien status and identity verification is required when processing retroactive Medicaid requests (if not already verified for ongoing Medicaid). CONTINUED BENEFITS: A retro month cannot be used to create an ongoing span if the client was not eligible in the application month or month after. RETROACTIVE COVERAGE FOR SSI RECIPIENTS: For SSA applicants, see Disability Determination Overview, ABD 105-1. Effective Date: May 01, 2017