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Q DWI ( Qualified Disabled and Working Individuals ) - see Medicare Savings programs.

QMB ( Qualified Medicare Beneficiary) - see Medicare Savings programs .

Qualified immigrant - A qualified immigrant means an immigrant who is in one of the following categories as determined by the United Stated Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS):

A. Lawfully admitted for permanent residence (LPR) in the United States (holders of green cards). This category includes "American immigrants" as defined under section 584 of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs Appropriations Act of 1988;

B. Granted asylum under section 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA);

C. Refugee admitted to the United States under section 207 of the INA (the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2002 (Public Law 106-386) requires victims of a severe form of trafficking to be treated as refugees for food stamp purposes);

D. A refugee, asylee, one whose deportation is withheld for up to seven years upon entry into the U.S. or a parolee for up to one year after entry into the U.S.

E. Paroled into the United States under section 212(d)(5) of the INA for at least one year;

F. Deportation is being withheld under section 243(h) of the INA as in effect before 4/1/97, or removal is withheld under section 214(b)(3) of the INA;

G. Granted conditional entry under section 203(a)(7) of the INA as in effect before 4/1/80;

H. Cuban or Haitian entrant under section 501(e) of the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980; or

I. Under certain circumstances, a battered spouse, battered child or parent or child of a battered person with a petition pending under 204(a)(1)(A) or (B) or 244(a)(3) of the INA.

J. U.S. military connection (veteran, active duty, spouse or unmarried dependent child);

K. Lawfully in the U.S. on 8/22/96 and age 65 or older;

L . Canadian born Indians under 289 of the INA;

M. Afghan or Iraqi Special Immigrants status under section 101 (a)(27) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) shall be available to refugees admitted under section 207 of such Act.

N. Compacts of Free Association (COFA) - Citizens from the Federal States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands and Palau who lawfully reside in the United States.

Qualified Individual (QI) - see Medicare Savings Programs.

Qualified Long-Term Care Partnership Policy - A policy that meets all of the following requirements:

A. The policy covers a beneficiary who was a Wyoming resident or resident of another partnership state when coverage first became effective under the policy;

B. Is a qualified long-term care insurance policy as defined in Section 7702B(b) of the Internal Revenue code of 1986 issued not earlier than the effective date of the State Plan amendment;

C. The Department of insurance has certified that the policy meets the model regulations and requirements of the national Association of Insurance Commissioners model specified in paragraph (5) of the title VI, section 6021 of the federal Deficit Reduction Act of 2005

D. The policy meets the inflation protection federal requirements set forth in section 1917(b)91)(C)(iii)(IV) of the Social Security Act.

E. The policy was issued or amended no earlier than July 1, 2009

Qualifying quarters - quarters of coverage under Title II of the Social Security Act, including quarters worked by the immigrant, a parent while the immigrant was under 18 and quarters worked by a spouse while married to the immigrant, and has not received government benefits.

Quality Assurance (QA) - Evaluating overall performance on a regular basis to provide confidence that the relevant quality measures and standards are satisfied.

Quality Control (QC) - Monitoring specific results to determine if they comply with relevant quality standards and identifying ways to eliminate causes of unsatisfactory performance.

Quarter - three calendar months - January through March, April through June, July through September and October through December.