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Statutes > Connecticut > Title17b > Chap319v > Sec17b-303Sec. 17b-303. Income disregard. Application for federal waiver. (a) For purposes of determining eligibility for the HUSKY Plan, Part B and to the extent permitted by federal law and to the extent federal financial participation is available, the commissioner may disregard family income. Such disregard of family income shall allow subsidized coverage for an eligible beneficiary who resides in a household with a family income of not more than three hundred per cent of the federal poverty level. No such income disregard shall have the effect of granting eligibility for a child under the HUSKY Plan, Part A.
(b) The commissioner may submit an application for a waiver under Section 1115 of the Social Security Act (1) to authorize the use of funds received under Title XXI of the Social Security Act to establish a non-Medicaid health insurance program for eligible beneficiaries who reside in a household with a family income of more than two hundred thirty-five per cent of the federal poverty level but less than three hundred per cent of the federal poverty level, and (2) to allow families under Section 2105(c)(3) of Title XXI of the Social Security Act to purchase health insurance under the HUSKY Plan, Part B with a sliding fee scale for families with an income up to three hundred per cent of the federal poverty level and at full premium for those uninsured families with an income of over three hundred per cent of the federal poverty level. The commissioner may submit an application for a waiver of allowable expenditures in excess of ten per cent under the provisions of Section 2105(c)(2) of Subtitle J of Public Law 105-33.
(c) The commissioner shall submit any application for a federal waiver or proposed modification of any such waiver in connection with the HUSKY Plan, Part A and Part B, except the initial waivers specified under subsection (b) of this section, to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to human services, public health, insurance and appropriations and the budgets of state agencies prior to the submission of such application or proposed modification to the federal government in accordance with the provisions of section 17b-8.
(d) If the waiver specified in subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of this section is denied and the income disregard under subsection (a) of this section is not available, uninsured children who reside in a household with a family income of more than two hundred thirty-five per cent of the federal poverty level but less than three hundred per cent of the federal poverty level shall be eligible for unsubsidized benefits under the provisions of subsection (b) of section 17b-292.
(October 29 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-1, S. 15, 23; P.A. 98-8, S. 3, 5.)
History: Oct. 29 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-1 effective October 30, 1997; P.A. 98-8 amended Subsec. (a) re family income disregard to eliminate phrase "up to sixty-five per cent of the federal poverty level for the size of the family" and to establish that such income disregard shall not make a child eligible under the HUSKY Plan, Part A (Medicaid), effective April 7, 1998.
