A. The following are eligible for medicaid:

(1) a participant who is in transition to self-sufficiency due to employment or child support;

(2) a pregnant woman who meets the income and resource requirements for New Mexico's aid to families with dependent children as they existed on July 16, 1996;

(3) a member of a benefit group who is eighteen years of age or younger if the benefit group's income is below one hundred eighty-five percent of the federal poverty guidelines;

(4) a pregnant woman whose income is below one hundred eighty-five percent of the federal poverty guidelines;

(5) participants receiving federal supplemental security income;

(6) an aged, blind or disabled person in an institution who meets all the supplemental security income standards except for income;

(7) a person who meets all standards for institutional care but is cared for at home and meets eligibility standards for medicaid;

(8) a qualified medicare beneficiary, qualified disabled working person or specified low-income medicare beneficiary; and

(9) a foster child in the custody of the state or of an Indian pueblo, tribe or nation who meets eligibility standards for medicare.

B. Effective October 1, 2001, for the medicaid category designated "JUL medicaid" by the department, the income eligibility criteria shall be the same as the income eligibility criteria set forth in the New Mexico Works Act [27-2B-1 to 27-2B-20 NMSA 1978].

History: Laws 1998, ch. 8, § 15 and Laws 1998, ch. 9, § 15; 2001, ch. 295, § 8; 2001, ch. 326, § 8.

2001 amendments. — Identical amendments to this section were enacted by Laws 2001, ch. 295, § 8 and Laws 2001, ch. 326, § 8, effective June 15, 2001, that deleted former Subsection A describing a benefit group; redesignated the former preliminary language as current Subsection A; redesignated the former Subsections B to J as Paragraphs 1 to 9; and added Subsection B. The section was set out as amended by Laws 2001, ch. 326, § 8. See 12-1-8 NMSA 1978.