5111.114 Deducting personal needs allowance from recipient's income. - Ohio Statutes

5111.114 Deducting personal needs allowance from recipient's income.

As used in this section, “nursing facility” and “intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded” have the same meanings as in section 5111.20 of the Revised Code.

In determining the amount of income that a recipient of medical assistance must apply monthly toward payment of the cost of care in a nursing facility or intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded, the county department of job and family services shall deduct from the recipient’s monthly income a monthly personal needs allowance in accordance with section 1902 of the “Social Security Act,” 49 Stat. 620 (1935), 42 U.S.C.A. 1396a, as amended.

For a resident of a nursing facility, the monthly personal needs allowance shall be not less than forty dollars for an individual resident and not less than eighty dollars for a married couple if both spouses are residents of a nursing facility.

For a resident of an intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded, the monthly personal needs allowance shall be forty dollars unless the resident has earned income, in which case the monthly personal needs allowance shall be determined by the state department of job and family services but shall not exceed one hundred five dollars.

Effective Date: 07-01-2000; 06-30-2005