SENIOR CARE Act

Supporting and Empowering the Nation to Improve Outcomes that Reaffirm Careers, Activities, and Recreation for the Elderly Act or the SENIOR CARE Act

This bill expands eligibility for the Medicaid Ticket to Work Program to include individuals who are 65 years of age or older. (Under the current program, states may establish a Medicaid buy-in option for working individuals with disabilities whose income exceeds the customary limits and who are between the ages of 16 and 64.)

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5429 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5429

    To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to enable greater 
 participation by seniors and Medicare beneficiaries in State Medicaid 
             programs for working people with disabilities.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 13, 2019

  Mr. Stivers (for himself and Mrs. Beatty) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to enable greater 
 participation by seniors and Medicare beneficiaries in State Medicaid 
             programs for working people with disabilities.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Supporting and Empowering the Nation 
to Improve Outcomes that Reaffirm Careers, Activities, and Recreation 
for the Elderly Act'', or the ``SENIOR CARE Act''.

SEC. 2. ALLOWING SENIORS AND MEDICARE BENEFICIARIES TO PARTICIPATE IN 
              STATE MEDICAID PROGRAMS FOR WORKING PEOPLE WITH 
              DISABILITIES.

    Title XIX of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.) is 
amended in sections 1902(a)(10)(A)(ii)(XV) and 1905(v)(1)(A) by 
striking ``, but less than 65,'' each place it appears.
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