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Aged, Blind and Disabled Manual Section: Financial Eligibility Requirements Policy Manual Number: 110.052 Chapter: ABD Conditional Assistance Legal Authority: 20 CFR 416.1240 – 20 CFR 416.1245; 42 CFR 435.601 1. Policy Statement Conditional assistance may be available to an otherwise-eligible TennCare Medicaid applicant who has excess non-liquid resources. Conditional assistance is a contractual agreement allowing Medicaid eligibility based on the individual’s agreement to make reasonable efforts to sell excess non-liquid resources at current market value (CMV). The applicant must also agree to repay TennCare for Medicaid costs during the conditional assistance period with proceeds of the sale of the excess non- liquid resources. An individual is allowed to receive one period of conditional assistance during a period of eligibility. 2. Eligibility Conditions To be eligible for conditional assistance, an individual must: a. Meet all non-financial eligibility criteria (be aged, blind or disabled); b. Have liquid assets below the limit of $2,000.00; Note: When applying conditional assistance to a nursing home or waiver case with a community spouse, deduct the spousal resource maintenance allowance first from the community spouse’s own assets, then from the joint liquid assets, and finally from the joint non-liquid assets up to the total spousal resource maintenance allowance. Test the remaining liquid assets to limit of $2,000.00 for the institutionalized individual. c. Have total countable resources which exceed the Medicaid resource standard; and d. Agree in writing to sell excess non-liquid resources within the conditional assistance period. All joint owners of a property must sign the Agreement to Sell Property Form in order for any joint owner to be considered for conditional assistance. 3. Non-Liquid Personal Resources A non-liquid real or personal resource is a property which is not cash, and cannot be converted to cash within twenty (20) workdays. The following resource types are eligible to be sold under a conditional assistance agreement: