Budgeting Procedures for Financially Responsible Absent Parents 510-05-90-23

(Revised 7/1/14 ML #3406)

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This section applies to individuals are subject to the Non-ACA Medicaid policies.

When a disabled child resides with a caretaker other than the parent, and the parent's whereabouts are known, an attempt must be made to obtain the parent's income information. When the parent's income information is received, it is necessary to determine the amount of income that is available to meet the child's needs.  The following steps describe the procedure.

1. Compute an Affordable Care Act Medicaid budget based on the absent parents household. All income is considered unearned income for the child and is used in the child's budget.