Opinion ID: 590940
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Heading: Conditional Eligibility

Text: 23 In a sense, conditional eligibility is another form of resource spend down (though not limited to medical debts). The basic idea of conditional eligibility is that applicants may receive Medicaid eligibility by expressly agreeing to dispose of their excess resources promptly. In particular, plaintiffs point to the SSI regulations at 20 C.F.R. §§ 416.1240-416.1244, which provide for a limited entitlement to SSI payments when an applicant's resources exceed the allowable amount. To qualify under the regulation, no more than one-fourth of the applicant's resources must be liquid, and the applicant must agree in writing to dispose of his non-liquid resources within a specified period of time (three months for personal property and nine months for real property). § 416.1240. After liquidation, the applicant agrees to repay that portion of the payments that would not have been made had the disposition occurred at the beginning of the period for which payment was made. 9 § 416.1244.