5101:1-40-02 Covered families and children medicaid: OWF recipients eligible for medicaid.

All persons who receive OWF assistance are automatically entitled to healthy families/LIFmedicaid. This group encompasses:

(A) All persons included in the assistance group for the OWF program.

(B) Persons included in the OWF assistance group when the cash grant is reduced to zero to adjust for an overpayment.

(C) All persons included in the OWF assistance group and determined eligible for minimum payment are considered OWF cash assistance recipients.

(D) OWF assistance groups who are found eligible for cash assistance, but decline it, as long as they meet the eligibility requirements of the for healthy families/LIF medicaid group as stated in rule 5101:1-40-02.1 of the Administrative Code.

(E) All individuals who meet the temporary absence policy as outlined in rule 5101:1-40-01 of the Administrative Code including the parent or specified relative who is the only remaining assistance group member when a child (or children) has been removed temporarily from the home by a public childrens services agency (PCSA) pursuant to the policy.

(F) It is important to note that P.L. 104-193 broke the automatic tie between medicaid and cash assistance. It is the goal of Ohio’s medicaid program to ensure that all OWF recipients continue to be eligible for medicaid. Therefore, Ohio’s rules must be amended to the extent allowable by federal law to ensure that as OWF rules change, medicaid rules are amended to reflect these changes.

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 04/10/2003 and 04/01/2008

Promulgated Under: 111.15

Statutory Authority: 5111.01

Rule Amplifies: 5111.01

Prior Effective Dates: 9/3/77, 10/26/78, 5/1/79, 9/21/79, 2/21/80, 8/1/86 (Emer.), 1/3/86, 1/1/93, 10/31/97 (Emer.), 12/31/97 (Emer.), 3/9/98, 6/1/02 (Emer.), 8/30/02