2011 Ohio Revised Code
Title [51] LI PUBLIC WELFARE
Chapter 5111: MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
5111.708 Program implementing rules - disregarded income.

(A) The director of job and family services shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code as necessary to implement the medicaid buy-in for workers with disabilities program. The rules shall do all of the following:

(1) Specify assets, asset values, and amounts to be disregarded in determining asset and income eligibility limits for the program;

(2) Establish meanings for the terms “earned income,” “health insurance,” “resources,” “spouse,” and “unearned income”;

(3) Establish additional eligibility requirements for the program that must be established for the United States secretary of health and human services to approve the program;

(4) For the purpose of division (B) of section 5111.704 of the Revised Code, specify an amount to be subtracted from the difference determined under division (A) of that section.

(B) The director may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to specify amounts to be disregarded from an individual’s earned income, unearned income, or both under division (C) of section 5111.703 of the Revised Code for the purpose of determining whether the individual is within the income eligibility limit for the medicaid buy-in for workers with disabilities program.

Amended by 129th General Assembly File No. 39, SB 171, § 1, eff. 6/30/2011.

Effective Date: 2007 HB119 09-29-2007