VEHICLES (MAM)

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Automobiles and other motorized vehicles such as trucks, motorboats, snowmobiles, and motorcycles.

Treatment: Excluded Resource for the adult categories of assistance.

Exception: In nursing facility cases, exclude only 1 vehicle between the institutionalized individual and the community spouse when determining eligibility for the institutionalized individual. Treat the equity value of any remaining vehicles as a resource.

For FANF Medically-Needy Medical Assistance (MA) and In and Out Categories of MA Only

Treatment: Count or exclude the value of the vehicles for the FANF and FANF-related medically-needy or In and Out MA according to the policy below.

Household Vehicle(s):

Treatment: Exclude 1 vehicle per adult household member for FANF-related medical assistance and extended medical assistance households. Total number of vehicles excluded as a resource, regardless of ownership or value, should not exceed the number of adult members of the assistance group.

Jointly Owned Vehicles:

      Vehicles which are jointly owned with a non-assistance group member.

      Treatment: Exclude the value.

Junk Vehicle(s):

Junk vehicles are vehicles used only to supply parts for the individual's main vehicle, vehicles that are too dilapidated to be reasonably repaired for sale or use, or vehicles which can be sold only for scrap or parts. 

Treatment: Exclude the value.

All other Household Vehicle(s):

Treatment: Count the equity value of all other non-junk vehicles, registered or unregistered, owned by a household member.

References: He-W 856.04; RSA 167:4,I(a); RSA 167:81, IV(b); 42 USC 1382b(a)(2)(A), 42 USC 1396r-5(c)(2)(A) & (c)(5)