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member is eligible for TMA, Closure is not due to a qualifying event. Closure is due to adding a person (the father) and subsequently counting his income. The father was not a part of the household; therefore, the household’s income did not increase. 4. Dad and two children have received non-medically needy ACA Medicaid for 5 months. Dad gets a raise, and the total countable income closes the ACA coverage. Because there was a qualifying event (increase in household’s earned income), all family members are eligible for TMA. NOTE: If the case has been opened as medically needy, an increase in dad’s income would not be a qualifying event because he would not have been a member of the household. The increase in income would result in an increase in the spend down. 5. Household consists of mom, dad, and their daughter and they have been receiving non-medically needy ACA Medicaid for 7 months. Dad is not eligible because he cannot prove citizenship/noncitizen status (he is included in the filing unit because he is the spouse, his income is pulled in regardless of tax filing). Dad gets a job, and his earned income causes ACA Medicaid to become medically needy. Because dad is a required filing unit member who would have been included in the assistance unit if citizenship/noncitizen status could be verified, mom and their daughter are TMA eligible, but dad is not. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS: TMA households are subject to regular ten-day change reporting requirements. Job loss, with or without good cause, during the TMA 6-month period will not affect ongoing TMA coverage. Income changes reported during the TMA period only need to be verified if the family is requesting other Medicaid coverage (such as ACA), as there is no income limit for TMA. Decreased income may make some household members eligible for other types of assistance. Example: Mom, dad and two children are eligible for TMA. Dad reports a decrease in income that makes the two children eligible for HMK Plus, but the parents remain over income for an adult ACA program, so they remain on TMA, and the children move to HMK Plus. If there is a change and the children are no longer eligible for HMK Plus, they can transition back to TMA for the remainder of the eligibility period. CHANGES IN HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION-MEMBER LEAVES: If the TMA household contains two parents, and one parent leaves the household with a qualifying child and another qualifying child remains in the household, evaluate for continued TMA eligibility for both households. Example: The household contains mom, dad, and two qualifying children. Dad leaves with one child. Evaluate both households for continued TMA eligibility. If both households continue to meet requirements, each household continues to be TMA