AFDC-MA

AFDC-MA is the category of Medicaid that is based on rules for the Aid to Families with Dependant Children Program (AFDC) that were in effect on July 16, 1996.

CAF

Combined Application Form

CARES

Client Assistance for Re-employment & Economic Support

Cascade

The MA cascade is the hierarchy of eligibility.

CMO

Care Management Organization

COLA

Cost of Living Adjustment

COP

Community Options Program

DAC

Disabled Adult Child

ICF

Intermediate Care Facility

IMD

Institute for Mental Disease

Income

Income is anything you receive in cash or in kind that you can use to meet your needs for food, clothing, and shelter.

Liquid Assets

Liquid assets are defined as cash or assets which can readily be converted to cash. Examples include: bank accounts (savings or checking); postal savings; credit union or building and loan shares; contents of safe deposit boxes; savings bonds; stocks and other securities; promissory notes and mortgages which are payable to the applicant/recipient and negotiable; etc.

MAPP

The Medicaid Purchase Plan (MAPP) offers people with disabilities who are working or interested in working the opportunity to obtain health care coverage through the Wisconsin Medicaid Program.

Non-legally responsible relative (NLRR)

A non-legally responsible relative (NLRR) caretaker is a caretaker who has no legal responsibility for the minor or 18 year-old under his/her care.

OASDI

OASDI (Old Age Survivors and Disability Insurance)The Social Security programs that provide monthly cash benefits to you and your dependents when you retire, to your surviving dependents, and to disabled worker beneficiaries and their dependents.