This SPA transmitted an amendment to your approved Title XIX State plan to comply with the requirements of 5 1 12 of the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008, (P.L. 1 10-275). This provision requires States to increase the resource exemptions for Qualified Medicare Beneficiaries (QMB), Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries (SLMB) and Qualified Individuals (QI) to three times the resource limits of the Supplemental Security Income program. Prior to MIPPA, the resource exemption was twice the SSI limit.
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