Rule 23-104-4.2 - General Income ExclusionA. A general income exclusion of either $50 or $20 per month is applied based on whether the program operates under liberalized or strict SSI income policy. 1. Under liberalized income policy, the general exclusion is $50 for the following programs: a) Qualified Medicare Beneficiaries (QMB);b) Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries (SLMB);c) Qualifying Individuals (QI);d) Working Disabled (WD); ande) Healthier Mississippi Waiver.2. Under SSI income policy, the general exclusion is $20 for the following programs: b) Disabled Child Living at Home;c) Qualified Working Disabled (QWDI);3. Also under SSI policy, the following programs use the $20 general exclusion; however, in addition, these categories of eligibility are allowed other income disregards specific to the coverage group:a) Disabled Adult Child (DAC);c) OBRA Widow/Widowers; andB. The general exclusion is applied to unearned income first. Any remainder is then applied to any earned income. If there is no unearned income, apply the full general exclusion to earnings before excluding $65 plus one-half of the remaining earned income.C. The following principles must be considered in regard to the $50/$20 per month general exclusion:1. The general exclusion applies to the individual applicant's or recipient's own income, which includes income which has been deemed to them.2. Only one general exclusion can be applied to the combined income of any couple. A spouse deemor is not allowed a separate deduction from his/her income.3. In parent to child deeming situations, the $20 SSI disregard is applied to income of a single parent or combined parental income when a two-parent household is involved.4. No other unused unearned income exclusion, except the general exclusion, may be applied to earned income.5. The general exclusion is not applied to Income Based on Need (IBON).23 Miss. Code. R. 104-4.2
Social Security Act §1902 (r)(2); 42 CFR §435.601(b) (Rev 1994).