Married Couple where Both Individuals Institutionalized
If both spouses are institutionalized, apply the following rules:
- Calculate the individual's countable gross unearned income
- Calculate the spouse's countable gross unearned income
- Combine the countable gross unearned income of the couple
- Calculate the individual's countable gross earned income from all sources (including self employment income)
- Calculate the spouse's countable gross earned income from all sources (including self employment income)
- Combine the countable gross earned income of the couple
- Add the countable gross unearned income and the countable gross earned income to determine the total gross countable income for the eligible couple
- Compare gross amount to state maximum allowable monthly income standard.
- Exception: If spouses are both institutionalized but ineligible when treated as a couple, treat each spouse as a single institutionalized individual
Single Institutionalized Individual
- Total the individual's countable gross unearned income
- Total the individual's countable gross earned income from all sources (including self employment income)
- Total the individual's countable gross earned and unearned income to give total gross income.
- Compare gross amount to state maximum allowable monthly income standard.
Married Couple where One is Institutionalized and Other is Community Spouse
- Calculate the individual's countable gross unearned income
- Calculate the individual's countable gross earned income from all sources (including self employment income)
- Add the countable gross unearned income and the countable gross earned income to determine the total gross countable income
- Compare gross amount to state maximum allowable monthly income standard.