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<blockquote data-quote="dreamer" data-source="post: 172553" data-attributes="member: 1697"><p>first, with ssi and medicaide, I think it can vary by state. </p><p>over the years we have had all of us at times, and at other times just the kids on Medicaide here. Me and husband are both on soc sec disability, so- our income is the same, fixed and does not vary, but the eligibility $ amunt year to year can change sometimes. But yes, here by me, my oldest- my difficult child altho she was pretty nonfunctional, could not get Medicaide simply becuz of her disability- it was only given by income criteria here, and we did not have waivers here at the time for her type diagnosis. (it may have changed, this was a couple-- few years ago) so sometimes our income as a family was low enough for the kids to have Medicaide and some years it wasn't. </p><p>We tried to get SSI or coverage thru soc sec of one kind or another for difficult child for her own diagnosis, BUT.....our case was not standard or typical... our kids already got dependants benefits from soc sec due to both me and husband being disabled, and the $ amount they got as dependants- whether disabled or not was at just the $$ amount that preccluded her from getting awarded for her diagnosis.....BUT, if they DID award her ssi, it would have been slightly less than what she already got for being a dependant of disabled. </p><p>Once she turned 18, and no longer qualified as a dependant on us, THEN she DID apply for and get her own soc sec disability disabled before 18, and now gets the same $$ amount she got as our dependant (if they had given her pure ssi, she would have gotten slightly less) And then, after age 18, she did apply for Medicaide and she did get that as well, becuz her income is below the income cutoff NOW......on her own.....where only her income counts- becuz she is over 18. BUT there is some other weird glitch, she also applied for foodstamps, and they said only her income counts, and she qualifies $$ wise BUT......there is some "special" thing about her being between ages 18-21?22? and they told us, nope, it is up to US to feed her until then? </p><p></p><p>The other problem here where I am, (I do not think it is the same in the major cities or further south in the more rural and less affluent counties---??) There is an extreme problem of FINDING a doctor who will ACCEPT Medicaide.....and even the hospital gives Medicaide recipeints a hard time. No, they are not supposed to----it is illegal, but.......trust me......here where I am.it is a huge problem....and yes, it is even spoken of and acknowledged in media......but---- thats just HERE. So for my difficult child? Her Medicaide? she has had it 18 months? It is useless, as we have called now over 100 docs for her high blood pressure, bipolar, agoraphobia etc and not a single doctor anywhere we have called thus far will accept her. <sigh> HOPEULLY that will NOT be a problem for y0u----</p><p>and yes, it took us like 9 months to get the answer for the soc sec and 3 months to get answer re Medicaide. The soc sec comes up for reiview approx every 18 mos to 3 years, the Medicaide comes up formally once per year but you must immediately report certain status changes to income, family size, living arrangements etc. and here the Medicaide card is issued monthly for that specific month.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dreamer, post: 172553, member: 1697"] first, with ssi and medicaide, I think it can vary by state. over the years we have had all of us at times, and at other times just the kids on Medicaide here. Me and husband are both on soc sec disability, so- our income is the same, fixed and does not vary, but the eligibility $ amunt year to year can change sometimes. But yes, here by me, my oldest- my difficult child altho she was pretty nonfunctional, could not get Medicaide simply becuz of her disability- it was only given by income criteria here, and we did not have waivers here at the time for her type diagnosis. (it may have changed, this was a couple-- few years ago) so sometimes our income as a family was low enough for the kids to have Medicaide and some years it wasn't. We tried to get SSI or coverage thru soc sec of one kind or another for difficult child for her own diagnosis, BUT.....our case was not standard or typical... our kids already got dependants benefits from soc sec due to both me and husband being disabled, and the $ amount they got as dependants- whether disabled or not was at just the $$ amount that preccluded her from getting awarded for her diagnosis.....BUT, if they DID award her ssi, it would have been slightly less than what she already got for being a dependant of disabled. Once she turned 18, and no longer qualified as a dependant on us, THEN she DID apply for and get her own soc sec disability disabled before 18, and now gets the same $$ amount she got as our dependant (if they had given her pure ssi, she would have gotten slightly less) And then, after age 18, she did apply for Medicaide and she did get that as well, becuz her income is below the income cutoff NOW......on her own.....where only her income counts- becuz she is over 18. BUT there is some other weird glitch, she also applied for foodstamps, and they said only her income counts, and she qualifies $$ wise BUT......there is some "special" thing about her being between ages 18-21?22? and they told us, nope, it is up to US to feed her until then? The other problem here where I am, (I do not think it is the same in the major cities or further south in the more rural and less affluent counties---??) There is an extreme problem of FINDING a doctor who will ACCEPT Medicaide.....and even the hospital gives Medicaide recipeints a hard time. No, they are not supposed to----it is illegal, but.......trust me......here where I am.it is a huge problem....and yes, it is even spoken of and acknowledged in media......but---- thats just HERE. So for my difficult child? Her Medicaide? she has had it 18 months? It is useless, as we have called now over 100 docs for her high blood pressure, bipolar, agoraphobia etc and not a single doctor anywhere we have called thus far will accept her. <sigh> HOPEULLY that will NOT be a problem for y0u---- and yes, it took us like 9 months to get the answer for the soc sec and 3 months to get answer re Medicaide. The soc sec comes up for reiview approx every 18 mos to 3 years, the Medicaide comes up formally once per year but you must immediately report certain status changes to income, family size, living arrangements etc. and here the Medicaide card is issued monthly for that specific month. [/QUOTE]
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