Code of Maine Rules › 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES › 144 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - GENERAL › Chapter 150 - FREE CARE GUIDELINES › Section 144-150-1.02 - INCOME GUIDELINES

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
A.
Definitions.
For purposes of this Chapter, the following
				definitions shall apply:
(1)
Family.
A family is a group of two or more persons related by
				birth, marriage or adoption who reside together and among whom there are legal
				responsibilities for support; all such related persons are considered as one
				family. (If a household includes more than one family and/or more than one
				unrelated individual, the income guidelines are applied separately to each
				family and/or unrelated individual, and not to the household as a
				whole.)
(2)
Family Unit of
				Size One.
In conjunction with the income guidelines, a family unit of
				size one is an unrelated individual, that is, a person of 15 years old or over
				who is not living with any relatives. An unrelated individual may be the sole
				occupant of a housing unit, or may be residing in a housing unit (or in group
				quarters such as a rooming house) in which one or more persons also reside who
				are not related to the individual in question by birth, marriage, or
				adoption.
(3)
Income.
Income means total annual cash receipts before taxes from all sources except as
				provided in subparagraph (b) below.
(a)
				Income includes:
(i) money wages and salaries
				before any deductions,
(ii) net
				receipts from non-farm or farm self-employment (receipts from a person's own
				business or from an owned or rented farm after deductions for business or farm
				expenses);
(iii) regular payments
				from social security, railroad retirement, unemployment compensation, workers'
				compensation, strike benefits from union funds, veterans' benefits;
(iv) public assistance including Temporary
				Assistance to Needy Families, Supplemental Security Income, and General
				Assistance money payments;
(v)
				training stipends;
(vi) alimony,
				child support, and military family allotments or other regular support from an
				absent family member or someone not living in the household;
(vii) private pensions, government employee
				pensions, and regular insurance or annuity payments;
(viii) dividends, interest, rents, royalties,
				or periodic receipts from estates or trusts; and
(ix) net gambling or lottery
				winnings.
(b) Income
				does not include the following:
(i) capital
				gains;
(ii) any liquid assets,
				including withdrawals from a bank or proceeds from the sale of
				property;
(iii) tax
				refunds;
(iv) gifts, loans, and
				lump-sum inheritances;
(v) one-time
				insurance payment or other one-time compensation for injury;
(vi) non-cash benefits such as the
				employer-paid or union paid portion of health insurance or other employee
				fringe benefits;
(vii) the value of
				food and fuel produced and consumed on farms and the imputed value of rent from
				owner occupied non-farm or farm housing; and
(viii) Federal non-cash benefit programs,
				including Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, school lunches, and housing
				assistance.
Note:
Although one-time insurance payments are
				  excluded from income, one-time insurance payments made for coverage of hospital
				  services would limit the availability of free care to bills not covered by such
				  payments. See subparagraph 1.05 (B) (1) (b).
(4)
Resident of
				Maine.
The term "Resident of Maine" refers to an individual living in
				the state voluntarily with the intention of making a home in Maine. An
				individual who is visiting or is in Maine temporarily is not a
				resident.