General Eligibility

• Medicaid was developed to help those most in need of getting quality health care. For Connecticut Medicaid, these groups include those over 65 years old, disabled adults, pregnant women, low-income families with children and the blind. With Medicaid, the insured gets needed health care while payments for the service are made directly to the provider. If a family or individual qualified for Aid To Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) on July 16, 1996, or the state supplement program, they are eligible for Medicaid as well.
  
  

Non-Financial Requirements

• Besides being part of one of the identified Medicaid groups, a person must also be a U.S. citizen or a legal immigrant. Medicaid recipients must also be residents of Connecticut. Finally, anyone seeking Medicaid coverage must cooperate with a Connecticut Department of Health caseworker to establish eligibility and provide and needed documents.
  
  

Asset Limits

• Elderly, blind and disabled Medicaid recipients are limited in the amount of countable financial assets they can have: $1,600 worth of assets or $2,400 if they are part of a married couple (as of January 2011). Among the assets that are not counted toward this tally are homes, non-home property (if an effort is being made to sell it), life insurance with less than a $1,500 surrender value, motor vehicles (if needed for employment or transportation to medical appointments) and burial funds.
  
  

Income Limits

• Elderly, blind and disabled couples receiving Medicaid cannot have a net income of more than $777.92 or $672.10 a month in 2011. The income limit is dependent on where the person lives in the state. If a person is institutionalize, then the limit is $2,022 a month. Net income is a person's gross income minus Connecticut's allowable deductions. These are unearned income shared by a community of people, unearned income shared with a non-relative, income from a boarding house, the first $65 of earned income ($85 for a blind person) and half of what remains after deductions.