37.74.103    REFUGEE MEDICAL ASSISTANCE

(1) Medical assistance will be provided to refugees who qualify under (2) or (3) for the eight month period beginning with the month of entry to the United States.

(2) Recipients of refugee cash assistance are categorically eligible for medical assistance.

(3) Refugees not receiving refugee cash assistance are eligible for refugee medical assistance provided they:

(a) are ineligible for medicaid but meet the financial eligibility requirements of the medically needy program as set forth in ARM 37.82.1106, 37.82.1107 and 37.82.1110;

(b) meet immigration status and identification requirements as set forth in ARM 37.74.102(b) (i) through (vii) or are the dependent children of, and part of the same filing unit as, individuals who meet these requirements;

(c) have not applied for, been denied or terminated from refugee cash assistance;

(d) provide the name of the resettlement agency which resettled them; and

(e) are not full-time students in institutions of higher education, except when enrollment in such an institution is approved by the state as part of an individual employability plan.

History: Sec. 53-2-201, MCA; IMP, Sec. 53-2-201, MCA; NEW, 1982 MAR p. 1279, Eff. 7/1/82; AMD, 1992 MAR p. 675, Eff. 3/27/92; TRANS, from SRS, 1998 MAR p. 2063.