The President, Congress, and all federal agencies look forward to working with you to expand your efforts so that the exceptional employment potential of people with disabilities might be realized. No State match is required. This demonstration applies to individuals who work and who have a potentially severe disability. Federal funds would be available at the normal Medicaid matching ratios. Medicaid funds will not be used for this demonstration.
Grant information is available on our website.
You decide the upper income level for people who could be eligible. You decide how much money people may save from their work and still be eligible. And you decide how much you want to charge in the way of premiums, within certain broad limits. The Act allows you to build on the initial expansion group by providing coverage to employed individuals with a medically improved disability. This second expanded eligibility group consists of individuals who were once on Medicaid but who are no longer considered to be disabled because of medical improvement and who continue to have a severe medically determinable impairment.