2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 17b-282. (Formerly Sec. 17-134dd). Medical assistance for certain children and elderly and disabled persons.
Sec. 17b-282. (Formerly Sec. 17-134dd). Medical assistance for certain children and elderly and disabled persons. On and after January 1, 1991, the Commissioner of Social Services may provide, in accordance with federal law and regulations
and within available appropriations, medical assistance under the Medicaid program to
(1) children over five and under nine years of age whose families have an income below
one hundred per cent of the federal poverty level and (2) elderly and disabled persons
who would be eligible to receive supplemental security income benefits except for income and who have incomes below one hundred per cent of the federal poverty level.
History: P.A. 93-262 authorized substitution of commissioner and department of social services for commissioner and department of income maintenance, effective July 1, 1993; Sec. 17-134dd transferred to Sec. 17b-282 in 1995; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-2 made technical changes, effective July 1, 1997.
Cited as "17b-260 et seq. (providing for supplemental medical assistance)". 233 C. 557, 565.
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