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Income Disregards in Children's Separate CHIP Programs, 2008

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 Earnings ($/worker/month)Child Care Expenses (per month)Child Support Received (per month)Child Support Paid (per month)
United StatesN/AN/AN/AN/A
Alabama$90 $200 or $175$50 None
AlaskaN/AN/AN/AN/A
ArizonaGross IncomeGross IncomeGross IncomeGross Income
ArkansasN/AN/AN/AN/A
California$90 $200 or $175$50 Full Amount
ColoradoNoneFull AmountFull AmountFull Amount
Connecticut$90 $200 or $175$100 None
Delaware$90 $200 or $175$50 None
District of ColumbiaN/AN/AN/AN/A
Florida$90 1$200 or $1751$50 1None1
Georgia$90 $200 or $175$50 None
HawaiiN/AN/AN/AN/A
IdahoGross IncomeGross IncomeGross IncomeGross Income
Illinois$90 $200 or $175$50 Full Amount
Indiana$90 $200 or $175$50 None
Iowa20% of earningsNone$50None
Kansas$200NoneNoneNone
Kentucky$90 $200 or $175$50 None
LouisianaGross Income2Gross Income2Gross Income2Gross Income2
MaineNoneNone$50None
MarylandN/AN/AN/AN/A
MassachusettsGross IncomeGross IncomeGross IncomeGross Income
Michigan$90$200$50Full Amount
MinnesotaN/AN/AN/AN/A
Mississippi$90 $200 or $175$50 None
MissouriGross IncomeGross IncomeGross IncomeGross Income
Montana$120 up to $200NoneNone
NebraskaN/AN/AN/AN/A
NevadaGross Income3Gross Income3Gross Income3Gross Income3
New Hampshire$90 $200 or $175NoneFull Amount
New JerseyGross IncomeGross IncomeGross IncomeGross Income
New MexicoN/AN/AN/AN/A
New YorkGross IncomeGross IncomeGross IncomeGross Income
North Carolina$90 $200 or $175$50 Full Amount
North Dakota$90 4Full Amount 4$50 4Full Amount 4
OhioN/AN/AN/AN/A
OklahomaN/AN/AN/AN/A
OregonGross IncomeGross IncomeGross IncomeGross Income
Pennsylvania$120$200 or $175NoneNone
Rhode IslandN/AN/AN/AN/A
South Carolina$100up to $200$50None
South DakotaNone$500$50Full Amount
TennesseeGross Income5Gross Income5Gross Income5Gross Income5
TexasGross IncomeGross IncomeGross IncomeGross Income
UtahGross IncomeGross IncomeGross IncomeGross Income
Vermont$90 or $150 plus 25%$200 or $175$50 None
VirginiaGross IncomeGross IncomeGross IncomeGross Income
Washington$90 6Full Amount 6None6Full Amount 6
West Virginia$90 $200 or $175$50 None
WisconsinN/AN/AN/AN/A
WyomingGross IncomeGross IncomeGross IncomeGross Income
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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.cfmhttp://www.kff.org/medicaid/7740.cfm" href="http://www.kff.org/medicaid/7740.cfmhttp://www.kff.org/medicaid/7740.cfm" target="_blank">.

Footnotes: 
  1. Florida operates two SCHIP-funded separate programs. Healthy Kids covers children ages five through 19, as well as younger siblings in some locations. Medi-Kids covers children ages one through four. In Floridas separate SCHIP program, Medicaid disregards or gross income may be used (whichever is more beneficial to the family).
  2. Louisiana's separate SCHIP program will be implemented June 1, 2008.
  3. Nevada disregards $90 or 20 percent of earnings (whichever is greater).
  4. In North Dakota, $90 or the sum of federal income tax, state income tax, FICA, and any union dues, whichever is greater.
  5. As of March 1, 2008, Tennessee stopped using all disregards and now uses a gross income test to determine eligibility for SCHIP.
  6. In Washington, disregards all "reasonable" work-related childcare expenses in its childrens Medicaid and separate SCHIP programs.



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