Income Disregards -- Medicaid - Kaiser State Health Facts

	Earnings ($/worker/month)	Child Care Expenses (per month)	Child Support Received (per month)	Child Support Paid (per month)

United States	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Alabama	$90	$200 or $175	$50	None
Alaska	$90	$200 or $175	$50	Full Amount
Arizona	$90	$200 or $175	$50	None
Arkansas	$90 for regular Medicaid/None for SCHIP-funded Medicaid	$200 or $175 for regular Medicaid/None for SCHIP-funded Medicaid	$50 for both regular and SCHIP-funded Medicaid	None for both regular and SCHIP-funded Medicaid
California	$90	$200 or $175	$50	Full Amount
Colorado	$90	$200 or $175	$50	None
Connecticut	$90	$200 or $175	$100	None
Delaware	$90	$200 or $175	$50	None
District of Columbia	None for regular Medicaid/$100 for SCHIP-funded Medicaid	$200 or $175 for regular Medicaid/Full Amount for SCHIP-funded Medicaid	$150 for both regular and SCHIP-funded Medicaid	None for both regular and SCHIP-funded Medicaid
Florida	$90	$200 or $175	$50	None
Georgia	$90	$200 or $175	$50	None
Hawaii	$90	None	None	None
Idaho	Gross Income	Gross Income	Gross Income	Gross Income
Illinois	$90	$200 or $175	$50	Full Amount
Indiana	$90	$200 or $175	$50	None
Iowa	20% of earnings	$200 or $175	$50	Full Amount
Kansas	$200	None	None	None
Kentucky	$90	$200 or $175	$50	None
Louisiana	$90	$200 or $175	$50	Full Amount
Maine	$90	$200 or $175	$50	Full Amount
Maryland	$90	$200 or $175	$50	Full Amount
Massachusetts	Gross Income	Gross Income	Gross Income	Gross Income
Michigan	$90	$200	$50	Full Amount
Minnesota	$90 for regular Medicaid/Gross Income for waiver coverage SCHIP-funded Medicaid	$200 or $175 for regular Medicaid/Gross Income for waiver coverage SCHIP-funded Medicaid	$50 for regular Medicaid/Gross Income for waiver coverage SCHIP-funded Medicaid	Full Amount for regular Medicaid/Gross Income for waiver coverage SCHIP-funded Medicaid
Mississippi	$90	$200 or $175	$50	None
Missouri	$90	$200 or $175	None	None
Montana	$120	up to $200	None	None
Nebraska	$100	Full Amount	None	None
Nevada	$90 or 20%1	Full Amount	None	None
New Hampshire	$90	$200 or $175	None	Full Amount
New Jersey	$90	$200 or $175	$50	Full Amount
New Mexico	$750 for ages 0-5/$90 for ages 6-182	$375 for ages 0-5/$175 for ages 6-182	$50 for ages 0-5/$50 for ages 6-182	None for ages 0-182
New York	$90	$200 or $175	$50	None
North Carolina	$90	$200 or $175	$50	Full Amount
North Dakota	$90 3	Full Amount	$50	Full Amount
Ohio	$90	$200 or $175	$50	Full Amount
Oklahoma	$240	$200 or $175	$50	None
Oregon	Gross Income	Gross Income	Gross Income	Gross Income
Pennsylvania	$120	$200 or $175	$50	None
Rhode Island	$90	$200 or $175	$50	None
South Carolina	$100	up to $200	$50	None
South Dakota	20%	$200 or $175	$50	Full Amount
Tennessee	None for regular Medicaid/$90 for waiver coverage	None for regular Medicaid/$200 or $175 for waiver coverage	$50 for both regular Medicaid and waiver coverage	None for both regular Medicaid and waiver coverage
Texas	$120	$200 or $175	$50	Full Amount
Utah	$90	$200 or $175	$50	None
Vermont	$90 or $150 plus 25%	$200 or $175	$50	None
Virginia	$90	$200 or $175	$50	None
Washington	$90 4	Full Amount 4	None4	Full Amount 4
West Virginia	$90	$200 or $175	$50	None
Wisconsin	Gross Income	Gross Income	Gross Income	Gross Income
Wyoming	$400 or $200	None	$50	None

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Notes:

Data are for January 2008 and include the income that is excluded and expenses that are deducted from a family’s earnings in determining eligibility.
The methods used to determine whether a child qualifies for coverage, based on his or her family income, vary from state to state. Under longstanding federal law, states must follow certain rules in determining income-eligibility, but they also have considerable flexibility regarding whether they will count or exempt certain types or amounts of income and whether they allow deductions for certain types or amounts of expenses. Typically, states “disregard” — that is, they do not count — a portion of earnings from a working family’s income to reflect that these resources are needed to cover work-related expenses and generally are not available to cover other costs, such as the cost of purchasing health coverage.

Sources:

How States Use Disregards in Children's Medicaid and SCHIP: How States Use Disregards in Children’s Medicaid and SCHIP. Data based on a national survey conducted by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities for the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, May 2008. Available at http://www.kff.org/medicaid/7776.cfm http://www.kff.org/medicaid/7740.cfm" href="http://www.kff.org/medicaid/7740.cfmhttp://www.kff.org/medicaid/7740.cfm" target="_blank">.

Footnotes:

Nevada disregards $90 or 20 percent of earnings (whichever is greater).
In New Mexico, the allowable disregards for earnings and childcare are based on age. Earned income disregard for households with children under age six is $750 per month. For households with children age six to nineteen, earned income disregard is $90 per month per employed parent. Eligibility is calculated separately for each child depending on his or her age. For children under age six, childcare expenses are either a standard $375 or the actual amount of the expenses if they exceed $375. For children age six and older, childcare expenses up to $175 a month may be deducted.
In North Dakota, $90 or the sum of federal income tax, state income tax, FICA, and any union dues, whichever is greater.
Washington disregards all "reasonable" work-related childcare expenses in its children's Medicaid and separate SCHIP programs.

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