Other Excluded Income

(b) For individuals receiving home and community based care services, the aid and attendance allowance shall be applied to the cost of care.

(c) Income set aside under a Social Security Administration approved plan to achieve self support shall be excluded for the duration of the plan.

Source. #13715, eff 8-8-23

He -W 854.15 Adult Category Earned Income Disregard .

(a) The earned income disregard shall be the first subtraction from earned income when computing net income for the adult categories of medical assistance.

(b) For aid to the permanently and totally disabled (APTD) or old age assistance (OAA) medical assistance applicants and recipients and for their applicant spouses who are also applying for APTD or OAA medical assistance, the earned income disregard for each individual shall consist of the amounts specified in 20 CFR 416.1112 for supplemental security income (SSI) recipients.

(c) For aid to the needy blind (ANB) medical assistance applicants and recipients and for their applicant spouses who are also applying for ANB, the earned income disregard for each individual shall be the first $85.00 of each individual's monthly gross earned income plus one half of the remaining amount.

(d) ANB medical assistance applicants and recipients shall have additional employment-related amounts added to the earned income disregard if:

(1) There is an individualized plan for employment for a specified period of time which has been approved by the New Hampshire department of education and meets the requirements cited in 29 USC 720 et. seq.; and

(2) The plan described in (1) above requires the use of additional disregards.

(e) For ANB medical assistance applicants and recipients with applicant spouses who are applying for APTD or OAA, the computation method for determining the amount of the earned income disregard for the spouse shall be the method to determine the APTD or OAA earned income disregard in (b) above for medical assistance.

(f) For APTD or OAA medical assistance applicants and recipients with applicant spouses who are applying for ANB, the computation method for determining the amount of the earned income disregard for the spouse shall be the method to determine the ANB earned income disregard in (c) and (d) above.

(g) For an adult category assistance group which includes a non-applicant spouse, as defined in He-W 601.05(t), the computation method for determining the amount of the earned income disregard to be applied to the medical assistance case shall be the method specified in 20 CFR 416.1112(c) for SSI recipients.

Source. #13525, eff 1-24-23