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UPDATED: JANUARY 2012

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GLOSSARY

(MRG) ACTIVE MILITARY DUTY - The term “active military duty” applies to individuals in current full-time service in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard. Members of the National Guard are not included in this definition.

ADULT DAY HEALTH CARE – Non-residential medically supervised services for individuals with physical or mental impairment who need health maintenance and restorative services to enhance their ability to remain in the community.

AFFIDAVIT – A written statement of facts made voluntarily and under oath.

AID TO DEPENDENT CHILDREN (ADC) – Also known as Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). It is the pre-TANF federally funded entitlement program which provided cash assistance to eligible needy families that include a minor child deprived of parental support or care because of the death, incapacity, continued absence of either parent, or the unemployment/underemployment of the parent who is the principal wage earner; and the caretaker relative of such child. This program was replaced by the Family Assistance program. Medicaid continues to have ties to AFDC. Medicaid eligibility under the Low Income Families program can be no more restrictive than eligibility under AFDC as it existed on 7/16/96. Medicaid also includes a group of individuals who meet the categorical requirements of AFDC but exceed the financial standards of AFDC.

AID TO DEPENDENT CHILDREN (ADC) - RELATED - A medically needy category for children and their caretaker relatives.

ALIEN - An alien is a person who was not born in this country and who is not a naturalized citizen.

ANNUITIES - An annuity is an investment vehicle whereby an individual establishes a right to receive fixed for periodic payments, either for life or a term of years.

APPLICATION - An action by which a person indicates, in writing on the State- prescribed form, his/her desire either to receive assistance and/or care or to have his/her eligibility considered by a local social services official.

ASSESSMENT - A review by the local social services district of the total countable resources of a couple, and/or the income of a couple and family members as of the date of the request for assessment or at the time of application for Medicaid. This includes the review and documentation of the total value of the couple's countable resources, a determination of the community spouse resource allowance, community spouse monthly income allowance, and/or family member allowance(s), and the methods of computing these allowances.

ASSET - Includes all income and resources of an individual, and of the individual’s spouse, including income or resources to which the individual or the individual’s spouse is entitled but which are not received because of action by: the individual or the individual’s spouse; a person with legal authority to act in place of or on behalf of the individual or the individual’s spouse; a person acting at the direction or upon the