Special Needs Planning Tools

 A Comparison of 529 ABLE Accounts, Pooled Special Needs Trusts, and Special Needs Trusts.
 

Click here to view the NAELA News and Journal article that explains all of the above.

Income and Resource Criteria

Click here for the latest Income and Resource Criteria

Updated Poverty Guidelines From the Department of Health and Human Services

The Department of Health and Human Services are required to update the poverty guidelines at least annually, adjusting them on the basis of the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U). The poverty guidelines are used as an eligibility criterion by the Community Services Block Grant program and a number of other Federal programs. The poverty guidelines issued here are a simplified version of the poverty thresholds that the Census Bureau uses to prepare its estimates of the number of individuals and families in poverty. Click here for the new poverty guidelines for 2015. 

There are two slightly different versions of the federal poverty measure:

• Poverty Thresholds
  
• Poverty Guidelines
  

As required by law, this update is accomplished by increasing the latest published Census Bureau poverty thresholds by the relevant percentage change in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U). The guidelines in this 2015 notice reflect the 1.6 percent price increase between calendar years 2013 and 2014. After this inflation adjustment, the guidelines are rounded and adjusted to standardize the differences between family sizes. The same calculation procedure was used this year as in previous years. (Note that these 2015 guidelines are roughly equal to the poverty thresholds for calendar year 2014 which the Census Bureau expects to publish in final form in September 2015.)

The poverty guidelines continue to be derived from the Census Bureau's current official poverty thresholds; they are not derived from the Census Bureau's new Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM).

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FL Statewide Medicaid Managed Care (SMMC) Complaint/Issue Process

FL Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) seeks to address and resolve issues and concerns about the Statewide Medicaid Managed Care (SMMC) in a timely manner.  Click here to begin the complaint reporting process