New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 10 - HUMAN SERVICES › Chapter 90 - WORK FIRST NEW JERSEY PROGRAM › Subchapter 8 - SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR PAYMENT OF FUNERAL AND BURIAL EXPENSES › Section 10:90-8.2 - Persons who may be eligible

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) Claims for
				funeral and burial expenses may be received and considered with respect to:
1. A person who was in active receipt of
				assistance at the time of death, including WFNJ/TANF, WFNJ/GA, Supplemental
				Security Income (SSI) benefits, and Medicaid Only;
2. A person for whom eligibility for
				WFNJ/TANF, WFNJ/GA, SSI, or Medicaid Only can be otherwise determined provided
				that an application for assistance was made prior to death. This includes
				stillborn infants and deceased newborns who would have been included in a
				previously existing WFNJ case. Stillborn infants and deceased newborns
				delivered to SSI and WFNJ/GA recipients shall be considered for funeral and
				burial expenses regardless of whether or not there is a pending WFNJ
				application for the child;
3. A
				person whose eligibility had been established within 15 calendar days prior to
				death, but for whom no payment of WFNJ/GA had been issued;
4. A former recipient of WFNJ or its
				predecessors whose admission to any public institution within this State, other
				than a penal or correctional institution, was the only reason for the
				suspension or termination of the assistance payment, and whose death occurred
				within six months of confinement to such institution;
5. A person who died while a patient in a
				general hospital and who had been receiving WFNJ/GA at the time of admission to
				the hospital;
6. Recipients of
				Medicaid Only residing in the community and in Title XIX (Medicaid approved)
				facilities;
7. Recipients of
				Medically Needy benefits in nursing homes;
8. Recipients of SSI who were in hospice care
				programs;
9. Individuals in Adult
				Foster Care;
10. Recipients of the
				Community Care Program for the Elderly and Disabled (CCPED);
11. Individuals who died while satisfying a
				WFNJ sanction;
12. Recipients of
				the AIDS Community Care Alternative Program (AACAP);
13. An individual who had received WFNJ/GA at
				any time within six months prior to his or her death;
14. Individuals determined eligible for
				Assisted Living services on the basis of the receipt of SSI payments or
				eligibility for Medicaid Only;
15.
				Residents of long term care facilities, who entered the facility as Medicaid
				patients but elected to receive the services of a hospice agency while in the
				facility as long as the individual remains financially eligible for Medicaid
				while receiving hospice care. This does not apply to individuals receiving
				hospice care in the community;
16.
				Recipients of the New Jersey Care-Special Medicaid Program for Aged, Blind and
				Disabled;
17. Recipients of SSI (or
				its predecessor programs) or Medicaid Only who were admitted or committed to
				any tax supported institution within this State, other than a penal or
				correctional institution, with such admission or commitment being the only
				reason for suspension or termination of public assistance, and whose death
				occurs while confined to such institution; or
18. Participants in the New Jersey
				Workability Program with incomes up to 100 percent of the Federal Poverty
				Level.