Washington Administrative Code
Title 182 - Health Care Authority
WASHINGTON APPLE HEALTH
Chapter 182-512 - SSI-related medical
Section 182-512-0700 - SSI-related medical-Income eligibility

(1) In order to be eligible, a person is required to do everything necessary to obtain any income to which he or she is entitled including (but not limited to):

(2) The agency does not count this income until the person begins to receive it. Income is budgeted prospectively for all Washington apple health (WAH) health care programs.

(3) Anticipated nonrecurring lump sum payments other than retroactive SSI/SSDI payments are considered income in the month received, subject to reporting requirements in WAC 182-504-0110. Any unspent portion is considered a resource the first of the following month.

(4) The agency follows income and resource methodologies of the supplemental security income (SSI) program defined in federal law when determining eligibility for WAH SSI-related medical or medicare savings programs unless the agency adopts rules that are less restrictive than those of the SSI program.

(5) Exceptions to the SSI income methodology:

(6) To be eligible for WAH categorically needy (CN) SSI-related health care coverage, a person's countable income cannot exceed the WAH CN program standard described in:

(7) To be eligible for SSI-related health care coverage provided under the WAH medically needy (MN) program, a person must: