Alaska Administrative Code
Title 7 - Health and Social Services
Part 7 - Medicaid Assistance Eligibility
Chapter 100 - Medicaid Eligibility
Article 2 - Family Medicaid
7 AAC 100.162 - Child-student earned income exemption

Universal Citation: 7 AK Admin Code 100.162

Current through February 24, 2025

(a) The earned income of a dependent child who is a full-time or part-time student is exempt when determining Family Medicaid eligibility.

(b) In this section,

(1) "full-time student" means a student who is regularly attending
(A) vocational training that is designed to prepare a student or gainful employment, including participation in the Job Corps program established under 29 U.S.C. 2881 - 2901, for at least 30 hours a week if the program involves shop practices or at least 25 hours a week if the program does not involve shop practices;

(B) a college or university for at least 12 semester or quarter credit hours a semester or quarter;

(C) a high school for at least 25 hours a week or, if in a high school cooperative or apprenticeship training program, full-time as defined by that program; or

(D) an accredited correspondence course for at least 25 hours a week;

(2) "part-time student" means a student who is regularly attending a school, college, university, or course of vocational training
(A) who is not a full-time student; and

(B) whose course load equals at least one-half of the course load for a full-time student enrolled in a similar educational or training program, rounding down if necessary;

(3) "regularly attending" means enrolled and attending courses or enrolled but absent because of official school vacation, illness, convalescence, or family emergency.

Authority:AS 47.05.010

AS 47.07.020

AS 47.07.040

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