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Changes are indicated with red text or a red line to the right of the text in the manual sections as indicated below (you may need to scroll to find the related policy change).
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Rule Change |
| Counting Client Assets | Availability of income. Expenses incurred to secure a payment are not countable. | A.2 | 461-140-0040 |
| Representative payee fee. Moved to the section on the definition of earned income. 461-145-0450 was repealed. | B.19 | 461-145-0120 461-145-0490 |
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| Shelter-in-kind. Amended to specify that shelter-in-kind does not apply to all situations where the client has no shelter costs. If the shelter is provided by certain nonprofit organizations or in situations where the shelter does not have any market value, the shelter is not considered shelter-in-kind. | B.63 | 461-001-0000 461-145-0470 |
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Late addition 4/3/08 |
Economic stimulus payments. Policy added on this special payments to be issued by the Federal government in 2008. | B.70 | 461-145-0530 |
| Self-employment. Revised the policy on identifying self-employment by removing one criterion from a list of six, changing the criteria from meeting five out of a list of six criteria to meeting four out of five criteria. | C.1 | 461-145-0910 | |
| Added clarification to the treatment of self-employment income. | WG.1 | N/A | |
| Generic Program Elements | Decision notices. Restating the Department's policy about amending a decision notice, when a decision notice becomes void, and when no decision notice is needed. | D.4 | 461-175-0200 |
| This policy was pulled and filed to be effective October 2008. | Estate Administration. New definitions for terms used the estate administration process. | K.1 | |
| Estate Administration. New and revised definitions. Added new policy stating that an estate claim may be made after a community spouse has transferred a resource. | K.2 | 461-135-0832 461-135-0835 |
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| Estate Administration. Increase to burial expense amount. Rule renumbered from 461-006-0452. | K.9 | 461-135-0833 | |
| OHP | Added information on the Reservation list. | B.1 | 461-115-0050 |
| Income standards updated (effective January 24). | E.6 | 461-155-0180 | |
| OSIP | Added policy to clarify when a medical deduction can be used to reduce a liability. Also, added a note about the treatment of deductions when a cost is paid with a credit card. |
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| Added policy to indicate that you can provide a deceased applicant with retroactive medical (rule change effective July 1). | F.4 | 461-180-0140 | |
| CMS coding and payment information added to each of the special needs. Removed the transportation and room and board special needs as those will be repealed effective July 1. | H | N/A | |
| Presumptive Medicaid. Added a section on medical reviews. | WG.4 | N/A | |
| QMB | Income standards updated (effective March 1). | E.2 | |
| SPD Worker Guide | Alternate formats. SDS 540 now available on the DHS Forms Server in large print. | A.2 | N/A |
| Standards chart. Updated with changes related to the Federal Poverty Level. | E.5 | 461-155-0180 461-155-0290 461-155-0291 461-155-0295 |
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| Decision Notice Preparation Tips. Complete rewrite and reorganization of this worker guide. | G.9 | N/A |
