By skyforbes My mother, who has Medicare, is temporarily living with me and wants to apply for Medicaid in PA. She has changed her address to mine anywhere that it matters for mailing purposes, but she does not live here with me the majority of the time (she is a US citizen that lives internationally, came to visit, and is now stuck here for the foreseeable future – all flights to where she lives are cancelled indefinitely). She usually maintains a US mailing address for her bank accounts anyways, she's just recently changed it from a friend's house in NY to mine in PA. She desperately needs some sort of comprehensive healthcare coverage if she's gonna be here any longer as she is recovering from cancer and does not want to go into medical debt if she ends up needing care / medications / etc.
Her only income is social security, and we do not share any expenses. I pay for all of my own expenses and she pays for her own expenses. The representative over the phone said I would be counted as part of her household for medicaid purposes since she is living with me even though she explained that she is only living with me temporarily. She will absolutely not be eligible for medicaid if she has to count my income, and frankly she shouldn't have to – I don't financially support her in any way other than not literally kicking her out of my house when she has nowhere to go. I am certainly not trying to commit fraud here, but is there a way around this? Can she apply as a household of 1 while using my address?