249A.30A - MEDICAL ASSISTANCE -- PERSONAL NEEDS ALLOWANCE. - Iowa Statutes

249A.30A MEDICAL ASSISTANCE -- PERSONAL NEEDS ALLOWANCE. The personal needs allowance under the medical assistance program, which may be retained by a person who is a resident of a nursing facility, an intermediate care facility for persons with mental retardation, or an intermediate care facility for persons with mental illness, as defined in section 135C.1, or a person who is a resident of a psychiatric medical institution for children as defined in section 135H.1, shall be fifty dollars per month. A resident who has income of less than fifty dollars per month shall receive a supplement from the state in the amount necessary to receive a personal needs allowance of fifty dollars per month, if funding is specifically appropriated for this purpose.          Section History: Recent Form 2006 Acts, ch 1113, §1; 2007 Acts, ch 218, §44; 2008 Acts, ch 1032, §41          Footnotes 2009-2010 allocation for monthly personal needs allowance of fifty dollars; 2009 Acts, ch 182, §9