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Now I know that you are the one either lying or mistaken. I'd like to go the charitable route and say mistaken but I don't believe that to be true. Anecdotally, my cousin was on welfare for 5 years. 2 of her 3 children (by 3 different fathers, who she DID receive AFDC for) were out of the house. As long as she looked for work, she received not only Medicaid and AFDC and Food Stamps but a subsistence check that had nothing to do with her kid or her medical expenses but rather to help with rent.
AFDC was once only applied to women with minor children, and had federally mandated guildlines. If your cousin had a minor child in the home, which you stated she still had, then she was still eligible for AFDC if she was not working.
TANF changed many things. You may want to look into that. TANF and Medicaid are no longer linked together.
BACKGROUN :
The Federal Government's benefit programs for individuals fall
into two general categories:
insurance-based programs in which the individual recei ves
benefits after financially contributing to the programs or
serving in the military; and
needs-based programs in which the individual must
demonstrate financial need. The individual neither
contributes to the program financially nor renders a
service in return for benefits received. Eligibility is
based on income and other factors such as assets.
In the second category, the following are the six largest
(measured by cash outlay) of the Federal needs-based benefit
programs:
Medicaid , which purchases medical care for persons unable to afford the cost of such care;
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), which
provides a monthly cash allowance to children and their
caretakers;
Food Stamp, which provides coupons to households for
purchasing food;
Supplemental Security Income (SSI), which provides cash
assistance to individuals who are aged, blind, or disabled;
Section 8 Low-Income Housing Assistance, which subsidizes
rent for families or individuals who are aged or disabled;
and
Pell Grant, which provides cash assistance to students for
postsecondary education.
These six programs are examined in this study. They areadministered by six different Federal agencies: the Departmentsof Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Education, Agricultureand three different operating divisions of the Department of
Heal th and Human Services (HHS). Regulations are developed and
enforced by six separate entities.
At the local level, the six programs are administered by four
agencies. Pulic housing authorities manage the Section 8 program; postsecondary institutions administer Pell Grants; theSocial Security Administration (SSA) operates the SSI program;and local welfare agencies (under State supervision or
administration) determine eligibility for the Food Stamp, AFDC,.
and Medicaiq programs
http://oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oai-04-88-01280.pdf
Categorical Eligibility
Medicaid eligibility is limited to individuals who fall into specified categories. The federal Medicaid statute identifies over 25 different eligibility categories for which federal matching funds are available. Figure 2 shows the major "pathways" to Medicaid eligibility for children and for non-disabled adults under 65. Several of these pathways overlap one another, with the result that a child or an adult may qualify for Medicaid coverage under more than one eligibility category. For example, a child age 5 is potentially categorically eligible as (1) a "poverty-related" child; (2) a dependent child in a family meeting July 16, 1996 state welfare eligibility standards; or (3) a child in a welfare-to-work family. If this child has a disabling condition, the child may also qualify for Medicaid as a child receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits. The number of categories and the multiple pathways by which one may qualify for coverage add to the complexity of Medicaid eligibility policy.
There are five broad coverage categories: children; pregnant women; adults in families with dependent children; disabled individuals; and the elderly. This paper focuses on three of these five broad coverage categories: children, pregnant women, and adults in families with dependent children.
http://www.kff.org/medicaid/2106-eligibility2.cfm
These are the cetategories used to determine AFDC eligibility, when it was still the former program. Since you stated your cousin was on AFDC, it remains she was on the former program, not on TANF. As a result, she had her benefits based upon either her medical condition or on the presence of the children.
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As long as she looked for work, she received not only Medicaid and AFDC and Food Stamps but a subsistence check that had nothing to do with her kid or her medical expenses but rather to help with rent.
Even her rent checks, which was section 8 housing, was based upon the presence of either the child or her medical condition. To say otherwise is wrong. The guidelines did not allow for an individual to collect any form of help without one of the 5 categories (bolded above) being in play.
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