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Page 6 of 11 § 10:71-4.5 Resource eligibility standards agency because the applicant was not resource-eligible earlier than the date awarded. W.H. v. Monmouth Cnty. Div. of Social Servs., OAL DKT. NO. HMA 10917-16, 2016 N.J. AGEN LEXIS 862, Initial Decision (October 19, 2016). Social services board acted properly in requesting income verification for a deceased nursing home resident for the two month period between August 1, 2015, the date of Medicaid eligibility requested by counsel, and the date of application, which was October 22, 2015, because the governing regulations made it clear that the month of application determined resource eligibility even if one was seeking eligibility from a date two months prior to the application. P.S. v. Camden Cnty. Bd. of Social Servs., OAL DKT. NO. HMA 05515-16, 2016 N.J. AGEN LEXIS 755, Initial Decision (September 9, 2016). Medicaid applicant was entitled to benefit eligibility for Medicaid Managed Long Term Services and Support as of December 1, 2015 because but for the delay caused by the referral, by a county board of social services, to the Office of Community Choice Options of the Department of Human Services (DHS), his eligibility date would have been December 1, not February 1 of the subsequent year. D.L. v. Essex Cnty. Bd. of Social Servs., OAL DKT. NO. HMA 07350-16, 2016 N.J. AGEN LEXIS 580, Initial Decision (July 7, 2016). Ex-husband's Medicaid eligibility was properly penalized based on his having executed a property settlement agreement (PSA) which left him functionally destitute with only his own Social Security income. That said, the ex- wife was entitled to receive a larger share of the couple's assets because she had used separate assets to pay his expenses. Based on a review of the PSA provisions, the ex-husband most likely would have been entitled to receive around $ 100,000 so the penalty on his eligibility was properly based on that amount. G.K. v. Ocean Cnty. Bd. of Social Servs. and DMAHS, OAL DKT. NO. HMA 07759-15, 2016 N.J. AGEN LEXIS 456, Final Administrative Determination (June 7, 2016). Medicaid recipient prevailed on a claim that she was entitled to invoke the "caregiver's exemption" with respect to her son. Both her son and her daughter-in-law, with whom the recipient lived, provided substantial care to the recipient including overseeing her medication, preparing her meals in a manner that was mindful of her particular nutritional requirements, and otherwise assisting her in the activities of daily life. The fact that the son was employed full-time did not prevent the care provided by the couple from exceeding the threshold of "normal personal support activities." L.K. v. Bergen Cnty. Bd. of Social Servs., OAL DKT. NO. HMA 05437-16, 2016 N.J. AGEN LEXIS 552, Initial Decision (June 29, 2016). County social services board failed to prove that an applicant for Medicaid in fact owned a certain bank account. The board had denied the application on the basis that the applicant had failed to provide her bank history and had rejected the applicant's claim that she did not own a bank account. The evidence adduced by the board on the issue of whether the applicant had a bank account consisted of a printout showing that someone with the same initials but a different social security number had a bank account, and that afforded an insufficient basis for a denial of eligibility. T.B. v. Passaic Cnty. Bd. of Social Servs., OAL DKT. NO. HMA 13930-15, 2016 N.J. AGEN LEXIS 547, Initial Decision (June 24, 2016). Though an applicant who was seeking an award of Medicaid benefits provided a letter from her bank containing certain needed information, the letter did not address the balance in the account on the first of the month, which was the critical date under applicable regulations, and that failure provided grounds for a denial. A.A-G. v. Somerset Cnty. Bd. of Social Servs., OAL DKT. NO. HMA 00912-16, 2016 N.J. AGEN LEXIS 174, Initial Decision (April 11, 2016). Sufficient evidence supported the determination of a county board of social services that the funds in a bank account in the names of the applicant and her daughter were a resource of the applicant and were properly counted in determining the applicant's resources for the purposes of qualifying for participation in the Medicaid Only Program. Since those funds well exceeded the ceiling for eligibility, the applicant was properly found to be ineligible. M.H. v. Mercer Cnty., Bd. of Social Servs., OAL DKT. NO. HMA 16444-15, 2016 N.J. AGEN LEXIS 142, Initial Decision (March 17, 2016).