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The purpose of this GIS is to inform local departments of social services that recent State legislation has eliminated the asset test for the Qualified Medicare Beneficiary Program (QMB) and the Specified Low Income Medicare Beneficiary Program (SLIMB), April 1, 2008. For applications that include a period of coverage prior to April 1, 2008, the resource test will apply to that period of coverage. The asset test for the Qualified Individual (QI) Program was eliminated in 2002 (see GIS 02 MA/009). The Medicaid Budget Logic system (MBL) has been changed to disregard resources in determining eligibility for all three of these Medicare Savings Programs (MSP).
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