| Notes: | Eligibility for Supplemental Security Income beneficiaries based on 2000 data.
Eligibility for the aged, blind, and disabled under the OBRA ''86 option based on 2001 data.
Data on parents take into account earnings disregards when determining income thresholds. Disregards may be time limited, and states may also use additional disregards in determining eligibility.
Eligibility levels for aged, blind, and disabled under the OBRA ''86 option may apply to any or all of these groups. |
| Sources: | Supplemental Security Income (SSI): Kaiser Family Foundation and The Urban Institute, 2000.
Aged, Blind, and/or Disabled under OBRA ''86: Medicaid Eligibility Policy for Aged, Blind, and Disabled Beneficiaries Prepared by Bruen, B., Wiener, J., and Thomas, S. of the Urban Institute for AARP, November 2003. |
| Definitions: | OBRA ''86: the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986, which gave states the option to extend Medicaid benefits to aged and disabled persons with incomes up to 100% of the federal poverty level, including more flexible income and resource standards. |
| Footnotes: | - Not Applicable because there are no national eligibility levels.
- These Section 209b states exercise an option that allows states to use their 1972 financial and non-financial standards instead of the federal SSI standards to determine eligibility for the disabled. If a state uses its more restrictive 1972 financial eligibility standards, it must also allow disabled individuals to "spend down" into Medicaid eligibility by deducting incurred medical expenses from income.
- Hawaii is considered a 209(b) state, but all aged, blind, and disabled people are eligible under other coverage options with higher income standards and/or resource levels than SSI.
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