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Page 5 of 14 § 10:71-2.2 Responsibilities in the application process Applicant was properly denied Skilled Nursing Home Medicaid benefits on the ground that the applicant had failed to provide information relating to a bank account. Information concerning that account was requested in three of four letters from the agency, which also indicated that any further extensions of time had to be approved by a unit supervisor. Because the applicant neither provided the requested information nor requested another extension, denial of the application was proper. H.H. v. Camden Cnty. Bd. of Social Servs., OAL DKT. NO. HMA 08680-17, 2017 N.J. AGEN LEXIS 629, Initial Decision (August 21, 2017). Interpretation of regulations that was urged by an applicant for Nursing Home Medicaid Claimant's as imposing the burden to establish eligibility therefor upon a country social services board was contrary to the language and import of N.J.A.C. 10:71-2.2 and N.J.A.C. 10:71-3.1(b), both of which require the applicant to substantiate claims of eligibility with corroborative evidence from pertinent sources. L.K. v. Camden Cnty. Bd. of Social Servs., OAL DKT. NO. HMA 17513-16, 2017 N.J. AGEN LEXIS 551, Initial Decision (July 11, 2017). Agency should not have denied an application for Medicaid Only filed by a daughter on behalf of her elderly mother because the daughter showed that she provided most of the requested documents in a timely manner, that certain pension information requested by the agency was not available to her, and that her status as POA for her mother had terminated upon the latter's death. S.A. v. Union Cnty. Bd. of Social Servs., OAL DKT. NO. HMA 03094-17, 2017 N.J. AGEN LEXIS 500, Initial Decision (July 6, 2017). Social service agency failed to carry out its assigned responsibilities when it failed to advise the representatives of a Medicaid applicant that there were documents that had been requested by the agency but had not been supplied. That is, the agency had a responsibility to sufficiently communicate with the applicant to explain why previous submissions were insufficient. J.D. v. Essex Cnty. Bd. of Social Servs., OAL DKT. NO. HMA 03198-17, 2017 N.J. AGEN LEXIS 398, Initial Decision (June 20, 2017). Applicant for institutional-level Medicaid did not carry her burden to show that a county welfare agency failed to provide effective assistance in connection with requests for documentation from applicant. Applicant's representative did not provide basic banking information to the agency. In the absence of such, there was nothing that the agency could do in the way of verifying accuracy or otherwise advancing the application, so denial thereof was not improper. P.R. v. Union Cnty. Bd. of Social Servs., OAL DKT. NO. HMA 09905-16, 2017 N.J. AGEN LEXIS 401, Initial Decision (June 16, 2017).Director approved of and adopted ALJ's report and recommendation finding that the failure and/or refusal of a husband of an incapacitated wife to disclose his resources in connection with a redetermination of the wife's Medicaid eligibility did not provide grounds to either extend the time for compliance or grant a "spousal waiver." K.Z. v. DMAHS, OAL DKT. NO. HMA 16945-16, 2017 N.J. AGEN LEXIS 1143, Final Agency Determination (May 23, 2017). Agency's denial of an application for Medicaid nursing home benefits on the ground that agency requests for information were unfulfilled was reversed because, unbeknown to the agency, applicant's wife, who was responding to the agency's information requests, had been hospitalized as a result of a fall and spent several weeks in a rehabilitation facility. Given those unforeseen circumstances, the applicant's wife should have been allowed additional time to respond to the agency's follow-up requests. R.B. v. Burlington Cnty. Bd. of Social Servs., OAL DKT. NOS. HMA 14375-16, HMA 04295-16 (Consolidated), 2017 N.J. AGEN LEXIS 313, Initial Decision (May 15, 2017). ALJ's determination that an applicant's first Medicaid application was properly denied was approved by the Director, but the ALJ's finding reversing the county social services board's ruling that a second application should not be denied was rejected by the Director. The fact that the applicant's wife, who was responding to the agency's information requests, had been hospitalized due to a fall and had spent several weeks in a rehabilitation facility was an insufficient basis for relief because the applicant at all times was represented by counsel. That meant that "exceptional circumstances" justifying an extension of the deadline for submission of verifications were not shown. R.B. v. DMAHS, OAL DKT. NO. HMA 04295-16, 2017 N.J. AGEN LEXIS 1169, Final Agency Determination (May 13, 2017).