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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 171409" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>Well, I was looking into Medicaid (primarily for difficult child) or the state insurance assistance. One of the state insurance assistance programs has the cut off that is below (although not a lot below) what I earn (on average) since I haven't been working full time due to his appointment requirements. This program is supposed to be easier to get than Medicaid, so if he wouldn't qualify for it, he wouldn't qualify for medicaid, in theory. There is another state ins. assistance that gives $100/mo per child to a family to help them pay for medical insurance. But that would not be anywhere close to solving the problem either. (Our insurance alone cost $950/mo) not including a separate insurance for basic dental. The insurance I'm paying for now is an HMO- nothing extravagant, and I still pay co-pays for dr's and medications. I would be better off to work a little less to make sure I fall below that line (I get paid by the hour now)- if they won't check with my employer to see how many hours he would let me work. Will they do that?</p><p></p><p>difficult child might qualify as disabled- someone from a state agency insinuated that because he has been in a psychiatric hospital (short, acute stay though) and will have spent 6 weeks in juvy this year. She said that qualified him for disabled status because he has been "institutionalized". I'm not sure I buy that, but I don't know. And if I got that status for him, what does it take to get the label off if the difficult child does improve and things get better after a few years?</p><p></p><p>I thought about the abandonment idea- I'm not sure that can work if legally, paternity was never established. (The man knows- he just won't acknowledge any of it and refused my offer to prove it to him and when I called him to tell him that his son had asked to speak to him, when difficult child was about 6yo, he told me it wasn't his problem, that I was the one that wanted the baby)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 171409, member: 3699"] Well, I was looking into Medicaid (primarily for difficult child) or the state insurance assistance. One of the state insurance assistance programs has the cut off that is below (although not a lot below) what I earn (on average) since I haven't been working full time due to his appointment requirements. This program is supposed to be easier to get than Medicaid, so if he wouldn't qualify for it, he wouldn't qualify for medicaid, in theory. There is another state ins. assistance that gives $100/mo per child to a family to help them pay for medical insurance. But that would not be anywhere close to solving the problem either. (Our insurance alone cost $950/mo) not including a separate insurance for basic dental. The insurance I'm paying for now is an HMO- nothing extravagant, and I still pay co-pays for dr's and medications. I would be better off to work a little less to make sure I fall below that line (I get paid by the hour now)- if they won't check with my employer to see how many hours he would let me work. Will they do that? difficult child might qualify as disabled- someone from a state agency insinuated that because he has been in a psychiatric hospital (short, acute stay though) and will have spent 6 weeks in juvy this year. She said that qualified him for disabled status because he has been "institutionalized". I'm not sure I buy that, but I don't know. And if I got that status for him, what does it take to get the label off if the difficult child does improve and things get better after a few years? I thought about the abandonment idea- I'm not sure that can work if legally, paternity was never established. (The man knows- he just won't acknowledge any of it and refused my offer to prove it to him and when I called him to tell him that his son had asked to speak to him, when difficult child was about 6yo, he told me it wasn't his problem, that I was the one that wanted the baby) [/QUOTE]
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