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INCOME ADC-RELATED BUDGETING METHODOLOGY

$30 AND 1/3 EARNED INCOME DISREGARD

In addition, these persons are entitled to the $30 disregard for eight additional months as long as they continue to be employed. The eight-month period continues to run even if the recipient goes off assistance. If the individual reapplies for Medicaid at any time during the eight-month period, the $30 disregard is deducted from earned income in determining eligibility.

Once the eight-month maximum has been reached, the individual may not receive the $30 and 1/3 or $30 disregard again until s/he has been off Medicaid under LIF budgeting for 12 consecutive months.

See CATEGORICAL FACTORS MEDICAID EXTENSIONS/CONTINUATIONS for information about certain groups of people that are eligible for Medicaid as a result of their eligibility remaining in effect from a previous period of time. Because of this automatic eligibility, these persons are not entitled to the $30 and 1/3 disregard.

When to Verify: (a) When the recipient or the case record indicates that the recipient is employed and has received Medicaid under LIF budgeting in one of the four previous months;

(b) When the A/R indicates that his/her Medicaid case, under LIF budgeting, was closed for a reason other than an increase in income.

(MRG)