H.R. 490299th CongressHouse Bill

Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to exclude, in determining an institutionalized individual's Medicaid eligibility…

Official title: A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to clarify that, in the case of an institutionalized spouse, income and resources required to be used for the support of a non-institutionalized spouse (and children) are not considered to be available to the institutionalized spouse.

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Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to exclude, in determining an institutionalized individual's Medicaid eligibility, the income or resources which a court order requires to be used for the support of such individual's spouse or children.

Introduced May 22, 1986
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Barbara Mikulski

Democrat

U.S. Representative · MD-3

12 cosponsors — all Democrat

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