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Manual Title Chapter Page Revision Date Virginia Medical Assistance Eligibility M03 July 2020 Subchapter Subject Page ending with Page M0310 GENERAL RULES & PROCEDURES M0310.107 8
B. Procedures An SSI recipient who receives SSI as blind meets the blindness definition for Medicaid. Verify the SSI recipient’s SSI eligibility via SVES (State Verification Exchange System). Virginia no longer maintains a central registry of individuals who have been certified as blind or visually impaired. For an individual who alleges blindness or a visual impairment but does not receive SSI or Social Security Disability Income benefits, refer to section M0310.112 B to establish whether or not the individual requires a referral to the Disability Determination Services (DDS). If the individual requires a determination of blindness, refer the individual to the DDS using the procedure in M0310.112 E. 1.
M0310.107 CARETAKER-RELATIVE
A. Definitions 1. Caretaker- relative A "caretaker-relative" is an individual who is not a parent, but who • is a relative, of a specified degree, of a dependent child (as defined in M0310.111) and • is living with and assuming continuous responsibility for day to day care of the dependent child (as defined in M0310.111) in a place of residence maintained as his or their own home. A caretaker-relative is also referred to as a “non-parent caretaker” to distinguish the caretaker-relative from the parent. 2. Specified Degree A relative of specified degree of the dependent child is • any blood relative, including those of half-blood and including first cousins, nephews or nieces and persons of preceding generations as denoted by prefixes of grand, great, or great-great; • a stepfather, stepmother, stepbrother, and stepsister; • a relative by adoption following entry of the interlocutory or final order, whichever is first; the same relatives by adoption as listed above: including first cousins, nephews or nieces and persons of preceding generations as denoted by prefixes of grand, great, or great-great, and stepfather, stepmother, stepbrother, and stepsister. • spouses of any persons named in the above groups even after the marriage is terminated by death or divorce. Neither severance of parental rights nor adoption terminates the relationship to biological relatives.