Medicaid residents would keep larger personal allowances

County job and family services departments would deduct a personal needs allowance before calculating what assisted-living participants apply toward services. This applies to people receiving services through the Medicaid-funded assisted living program, including eligible residents of participating residential care facilities and certain county or district homes. Participants must meet the program's care, residence, and other eligibility requirements. The allowance would be at least $75 for one person or at least $150 for a married couple when both spouses participate and their incomes count together. The text gives no start date or end date for these amounts.

County job and family services departments would deduct a personal needs allowance before calculating what nursing-home residents apply toward care costs. This applies to Medicaid recipients who live in nursing facilities. The text describes an allowance of at least $75 for one resident or at least $150 for a married couple when both spouses live in a nursing facility and their incomes count together. The text gives no start date or end date for these amounts.

The monthly personal needs allowance for ICF/IID residents would be at least $75 for one person or at least $150 for a qualifying married couple after the text's initial period. This applies to residents of intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities, or ICFs/IID. For a resident with earned income, the text also describes an allowance set by the Department of Medicaid or its designee that cannot exceed $105 during the initial period. The text says the $150 couple amount applies when both spouses are ICF/IID residents and their incomes count together. The text refers to a period before an unspecified January date and to calendar years thereafter, but the supplied passage does not provide the missing date or year.