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5.9.12 community spouse's ma application

When a community waivers person and his/her community MA Application spouse are both applying for MA, they are one case, but separate AGs.  Enter them in CARES Client Assistance for Re-employment & Economic Support on the same application.  Only one of the spouse’s signature is needed on the application.  

 

Both spouses are in the non-waiver spouse’s fiscal test group (FTG).  Since the waiver spouse is in the FTG, disregard any income Income is anything you receive in cash or in kind that you can use to meet your needs for food, clothing, and shelter. that may have been allocated by the waiver spouse to the community spouse.

 

The waivers spouse is a FTG of one.  CARES creates the separate FTG’s and AG’s.

 

This page last updated in Release Number: 04-01

Release Date: 02/01/04

Effective Date: 02/01/04