Pennsylvania Code › Title 55 - HUMAN SERVICES › Part II - Public Assistance Manual › Subpart C - Eligibility Requirements › Chapter 150 - CITIZENSHIP AND ALIENAGE PROVISIONS FOR CATEGORICALLY NEEDY NMP-MA AND MNO-MA › Subchapter A - GENERAL PROVISIONS FOR MA CITIZENSHIP AND ALIENAGE › GENERAL POLICY PROVISIONS › Section 150.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this
						  chapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
						  otherwise:
Applicant/recipient
-A person who is
						  applying for, or receiving, MA or a group of related persons who are living
						  together and who choose to apply for, or receive, MA as one group.
Citizen of the United States
-A person
						  born or naturalized in the United States. The term also includes nationals from
						  American Samoa or Swain's Island.
Emergency medical condition
-A medical
						  condition, including emergency labor and delivery, manifesting itself by acute
						  symptoms of sufficient severity including severe pain so that the absence of
						  immediate medical attention could reasonably be expected to result in one of
						  the following:
(i) Placing the
						patient's health in serious jeopardy.
(ii) Serious impairment to bodily
						functions.
(iii) Serious
						dysfunction of a bodily organ or part.
INA
-The Immigration and Nationality
						  Act (66 Stat. 163, June 27, 1952).
INS
-The Immigration and Naturalization
						  Service.
IRCA
-The Immigration Reform and
						  Control Act of 1986 (Pub.L. 99-603, 100 Stat. 3359, November 6, 1986).
Ineligible alien
-An alien who has been
						  lawfully admitted but only for a temporary or specified period of time. These
						  aliens are eligible for emergency medical services only and include:
(i) Foreign government representatives on
						official business and their families and servants.
(ii) Visitors for business or pleasure
						including exchange visitors.
(iii)
						Aliens in travel status while traveling directly through the United
						States.
(iv) Crewmen on shore
						leave.
(v) Treaty traders and
						investors and their families.
(vi)
						Foreign students.
(vii)
						International organization representatives and personnel and their families and
						servants.
(viii) Temporary workers
						including agricultural contract workers.
(ix) Members of the foreign press, radio,
						film or other information media and their families.
Illegal alien
-An alien who has not
						  been lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States; is not an
						  alien PRUCOL; or lawfully admitted with a visa and that visa has expired. These
						  aliens are eligible for emergency medical services only.
LPR-Lawful Permanent Resident
-A
						  legalized alien under IRCA whose status has been adjusted from LTR to LPR by
						  INS. For purposes other than immigration, LPRs shall be considered as lawfully
						  admitted for permanent residence. MA eligibility is subject to the IRCA
						  requirements at §
												150.1(b)(4) and
						  (c) (relating to general policy for MA
						  citizenship and alienage).
LTR-Lawful Temporary Resident
-A
						  legalized alien under IRCA who has been granted LTR status by INS. For purposes
						  other than immigration, LTRs shall be considered as lawfully admitted for
						  permanent residence. MA eligibility is subject to the IRCA requirements at
						  § 150.1(b)(4) and (c).
Lawfully admitted for permanent
						  residence
-An alien who has been lawfully accorded the privilege of
						  living permanently in the United States as an immigrant in accordance with the
						  immigration statutes, and whose status has not changed since admission. The
						  term does not include an alien PRUCOL since the residence is not in accord with
						  specific immigration statutes.
National of the United States
-A person
						  who is a citizen of the United States or a person who, though not a citizen of
						  the United States, owes permanent allegiance to the United States.
Pregnancy-related services
-The
						  pregnancy-related MA services available to aliens granted legalization under
						  IRCA include routine prenatal care, labor and delivery and routine postpartum
						  care. The postpartum care period begins on the last day of pregnancy and
						  extends through the end of the month in which the 60-day period following the
						  termination of pregnancy ends.
PRUCOL-Permanently residing in the United
						  States under color of law
-An alien who is living in the United States
						  with the knowledge and permission of the INS though not in accord with specific
						  immigration statutes and whose departure from the United States the INS does
						  not contemplate enforcing. The term includes an alien who entered the United
						  States in one of the following ways:
(i) Lawfully in a status other than
						LPR.
(ii) Unlawfully.
RAW-Replenishing Agricultural
						  Worker
-An alien who is admitted under a provision of IRCA that
						  provides for the admission of additional aliens to meet the shortage of
						  agricultural workers. RAWs will be granted LTR status by INS.
Satisfactory immigration status
-An
						  immigration status which does not make the alien ineligible for benefits under
						  the applicable program. (See section 121(d)(1)(B)(i)(III)) of IRCA
						  (42 U.S.C.A. §
													1320b-7, note).
SAW-Special Agricultural Worker
-An
						  alien who has been granted LTR or LPR status and is employed in seasonal
						  agricultural work. SAWs may commute from a non-United States residence such as
						  Mexico and still be eligible for LTR status under United States statutes, and
						  subsequently LPR status.
Undocumented alien
-An alien who does
						  not have, and has never been given, any type of INS documentation. These aliens
						  are eligible for emergency medical services only.
United States
-The 50 states, the
						  District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, Virgin Islands and the Northern
						  Mariana Islands.
This section cited in 55 Pa. Code §
														150.1 (relating to general policy
							 for MA citizenship and alienage); 55 Pa. Code §
														150.11 (relating to aliens
							 eligible for emergency medical services); and 55 Pa. Code §
														150.21 (relating to limitation of
							 MA eligibility for IRCA legalized
							 aliens).