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West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Chapter 3

West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Page 4 Chapter 3 Eligibility Determination Groups

➢ Elderly and Disabled Individuals A group of individuals who live together and purchase food and prepare meals together normally constitute a single AG. If the household contains an individual who meets all the elderly and disabled criteria listed below, that individual, his spouse, and their children under age 22 may form a separate AG, even if they purchase and prepare with others in the household. The individual must fit the criteria for physical and/or mental disability as defined by Section 13.15. • The gross countable income of others with whom the elderly and disabled individual resides (excluding the individual’s own income and the income of his or her spouse and their children) cannot exceed 165% FPL, which is shown in the E & D” column of Chapter 4, Appendix A. To determine countable income, the following rules apply: o Exclude the elderly and disabled individual, his or her spouse, and their children under 22 from the household size for the calculation o Gross income for the other members of the household is calculated using the same rules as a standard SNAP application • At least one AG member is at least 60 years old; and • Is unable to purchase food and prepare meals because he suffers from either a non- disease related, severe, permanent disability or a disability considered permanent under the Social Security Act (SSA) includes, but is not limited to: o Permanent loss of use of both hands, both feet, or one hand and one foot o Amputation of leg at hip o Amputation of leg or foot because of diabetes mellitus or peripheral vascular diseases o Total deafness, not correctable by surgery or hearing aid o Statutory blindness, except if due to cataracts or detached retina o IQ 59 or less, established after attaining age 16 o Spinal cord or nerve root lesions resulting in paraplegia or quadriplegia o Multiple sclerosis in that there is damage of the nervous system because of scattered areas of inflammation which recurs and has progressed to varied interference with the function of the nervous system, including severe muscle weakness, paralysis, and vision and speech defects o Muscular dystrophy with irreversible wasting of the muscles with a significant effect on the ability to use the arms and/or legs