1999 Minnesota Statutes

     256J.75 County of financial responsibility policies. 

    Subdivision 1.    County of financial responsibility.  
 The county of financial responsibility is the county in which a 
 minor child or pregnant woman lives on the date the application 
 is signed, unless subdivision 4 applies.  When more than one 
 county is financially responsible for the members of an 
 assistance unit, financial responsibility must be assigned to a 
 single county beginning the first day of the calendar month 
 after the assistance unit members are required to be in a single 
 assistance unit.  Financial responsibility must be assigned to 
 the county that was initially responsible for the assistance 
 unit member with the earliest date of application.  The county 
 in which the assistance unit is currently residing becomes 
 financially responsible for the entire assistance unit beginning 
 two full calendar months after the month in which financial 
 responsibility was consolidated in one county. 

    Subd. 2.    Change in residence.  (a) When an assistance 
 unit moves from one county to another and continues to receive 
 assistance, the new county of residence becomes the county of 
 financial responsibility when that assistance unit has lived in 
 that county in nonexcluded status for two full calendar months.  
 "Nonexcluded status" means the period of residence that is not 
 considered excluded time under section 256G.02, subdivision 6.  
 When a minor child moves from one county to another to reside 
 with a different caregiver, the caregiver in the former county 
 is eligible to receive assistance for that child only through 
 the last day of the month of the move.  The caregiver in the new 
 county becomes eligible to receive assistance for the child the 
 first day of the month following the move or the date of 
 application, whichever is later. 

    (b) When an applicant moves from one county to another 
 while the application is pending, the county where application 
 first occurred is the county of financial responsibility until 
 the applicant has lived in the new county for two full calendar 
 months, unless the applicant's move is covered under section 
 256G.02, subdivision 6. 

    Subd. 3.    Responsibility for incorrect assistance 
 payments.  A county of residence, when different from the 
 county of financial responsibility, will be charged by the 
 commissioner for the value of incorrect assistance payments and 
 medical assistance paid to or on behalf of a person who was not 
 eligible to receive that amount.  Incorrect payments include 
 payments to an ineligible person or family resulting from 
 decisions, failures to act, miscalculations, or overdue 
 recertification.  However, financial responsibility does not 
 accrue for a county when the recertification is overdue at the 
 time the referral is received by the county of residence or when 
 the county of financial responsibility does not act on the 
 recommendation of the county of residence.  When federal or 
 state law requires that medical assistance continue after 
 assistance ends, this subdivision also governs financial 
 responsibility for the extended medical assistance. 

    Subd. 4.    Excluded time.  When an applicant or 
 participant resides in an excluded time facility as described in 
 section 256G.02, subdivision 6, the county that is financially 
 responsible for the applicant or participant is the county in 
 which the applicant or participant last resided outside such a 
 facility immediately before entering the facility.  When an 
 applicant or participant has not resided in this state for any 
 time other than excluded time as defined in section 256G.02, 
 subdivision 6, the county that is financially responsible for 
 the applicant or participant is the county in which the 
 applicant or participant resides on the date the application is 
 signed. 

    HIST: 1997 c 85 art 1 s 59