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Manual Title Chapter Page Revision Date Virginia Medical Assistance Eligibility M03 September 2012 Subchapter Subject Page ending with Page M0310 GENERAL RULES & PROCEDURES M0310.111 12

B. Age & School Enrollment 1. Age The child's date of birth declared on the application/redetermination form is used to determine if the child meets the age requirement. No verification is required. A child who becomes 18 after the first day of his birth month meets the age requirement in the month of his 18th birthday; he is still considered under age 18 during his birth month. If he becomes age 18 on the first day of his birth month, he is age 18 for the whole birth month. An 18 year old child does not meet the age requirement in the month following the month in which his 18th birthday occurs unless the child is enrolled full-time in a secondary school or vocational/technical school of secondary equivalency, AND the child is reasonably expected to complete the program of secondary school or vocational/technical training before or in the month he attains age 19. 2. School Enrollment Accept the declaration of school enrollment.

C. Living With a Parent or Caretaker-Relative

1. Relationship The child’s relationship to the parent or caretaker-relative with whom he lives as declared on the application or redetermination document is used to determine if the child is living with a relative. No verification is required. For the purpose of determining a relationship, neither death, divorce, nor adoption terminates relationship to the biological relatives. 3. Child’s Father Virginia law considers a man who is legally married to the mother of a child on the date of the child’s birth to be the legal father of the child UNLESS DCSE or a court has determined that another man is the child’s father. NOTE: The mother’s marriage at the time of the child’s birth does not require verification; the mother’s declaration is sufficient. The man listed on the application form as the child’s father is considered the father when: • the mother was not married to another man on the child’s birth date, or • the mother was married to another man on the child’s birth date but DCSE or a court determined that the man listed on the application is the child’s father unless documentation, such as the child’s birth certificate, shows that another man is the child’s father. See M0310.123 for the definition of a parent.