State Choices to Promote Asset Protection

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  Public Health Insurance for Children Food Stamps TANF Cash Assistance
  Asset eligibility criteria Asset eligibility criteria Asset eligibility criteria
  Assets disregarded for Medicaid eligibility (2009)1 Treatment of vehicles in asset test (FY 2007)4 At least 1 vehicle excluded from asset test (2003)7
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Alabama Yes Aligned to TANF cash assistance rules Yes
Alaska Yes Aligned to TANF cash assistance rules Yes
Arizona Yes Aligned to TANF cash assistance rules Yes
Arkansas Yes Aligned to TANF cash assistance rules Yes
California Yes Aligned to TANF child care assistance rules No
Colorado Yes Aligned to TANF child care assistance rules Yes, if used for employment
Connecticut Yes Aligned to TANF cash assistance rules No
Delaware Yes Categorical eligibility5 No
District of Columbia Yes Aligned to TANF cash assistance rules Yes
Florida Yes Aligned to TANF cash assistance rules No
Georgia Yes Aligned to TANF-funded non-cash assistance rules No
Hawaii Yes Aligned to TANF cash assistance rules Yes
Idaho Yes Federal food stamp rules6 No
Illinois Yes Aligned to TANF cash assistance rules Yes
Indiana Yes Aligned to TANF child care assistance rules No
Iowa Yes Aligned to TANF cash assistance rules No
Kansas Yes Aligned to TANF cash assistance rules Yes
Kentucky Yes Aligned to TANF cash assistance rules Yes
Louisiana Yes Aligned to TANF cash assistance rules Yes
Maine Yes Categorical eligibility and aligned to TANF cash assistance rules5 Yes
Maryland Yes Aligned to TANF cash assistance rules Yes
Massachusetts Yes Aligned to TANF child care assistance rules No
Michigan Yes Categorical eligibility5 Yes
Minnesota Yes Categorical eligibility No
Mississippi Yes Aligned to TANF cash assistance rules Yes
Missouri Yes2 Aligned to TANF child care assistance rules Yes
Nebraska Yes Aligned to TANF child care assistance rules Yes
Nevada Yes Aligned to TANF cash assistance rules Yes
New Hampshire Yes Aligned to TANF cash assistance rules Yes
New Jersey Yes Aligned to TANF cash assistance rules No
New Mexico Yes Aligned to TANF child care assistance rules Yes
New York Yes Aligned to TANF-funded non-cash assistance rules No
North Carolina Yes Aligned to TANF cash assistance rules Yes
North Dakota Yes Categorical eligibility5 Yes
Ohio Yes Aligned to TANF cash assistance rules Not applicable8
Oklahoma Yes Aligned to TANF cash assistance rules No
Oregon Yes Categorical eligibility5 No
Pennsylvania Yes Aligned to TANF cash assistance rules Yes
Rhode Island Yes Aligned to TANF cash assistance rules No
South Dakota Yes Aligned to TANF cash assistance rules Yes
Tennessee Yes Aligned to TANF cash assistance rules No
Vermont Yes Aligned to TANF cash assistance rules Yes
Virginia Yes Aligned to TANF cash assistance rules Yes
Washington Yes Categorical eligibility5 No
West Virginia Yes Aligned to TANF child care assistance rules Yes
Wisconsin Yes Aligned to TANF child care assistance rules No
Wyoming Yes Aligned to TANF cash assistance rules No
South Carolina No ($30,000) Categorical eligibility and aligned to TANF cash assistance rules5 Yes
Utah No ($3,025)3 Aligned to TANF cash assistance rules No
Texas No ($2,000) Categorical eligibility5 No
Montana No ($15,000) Aligned to TANF child care assistance rules Yes
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Data Notes & Sources

  1. Rule applies to SCHIP-funded Medicaid expansions, where applicable.

    Donna Cohen Ross and Caryn Marks. 2009. Challenges of Providing Health Coverage of Children and Parents in a Recession: A 50-State Update on Eligibility Rules, Enrollment and Renewal Procedures, and Cost-Sharing Practices in Medicaid and SCHIP in 2009, Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. http://www.kff.org (accessed February 16, 2009).
  2. Children in families with income above 150 percent of the federal poverty line are subject to a $250,000 "net worth" test.
  3. Utah counts assets in determining Medicaid eligibility for children over the age of six.
  4. Households in which all members receive TANF cash assistance or SSI benefits do not have to meet gross income or asset eligibility criteria. Most states also waive these criteria for recipients of certain other benefits; some states waive these criteria for nearly all applicants.

    Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, "States' Vehicle Asset Policies in the Food Stamp Program," November 2006.
  5. Virtually all food stamp households in the state are authorized to receive a TANF-funded benefit that makes them categorically eligible for food stamps and thus exempt from the gross income and asset tests.
  6. Federal food stamp rules exclude the first $4,650 in fair market value of 1 vehicle per adult household member. Vehicles that meet certain criteria are excluded entirely.
  7. Gretchen Rowe with Jeffrey Versteeg, The Welfare Rules Databook: State Policies as of July 2003, Assessing the New Federalism, The Urban Institute, 2005.
  8. Ohio has eliminated the asset test.