[NFBNJ] NJ Medicaid Takes Action to Ensure Nursing Home Residents Receive Their Federal Stimulus Checks

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From: DDS Communications
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2020 9:12 AM
Subject: NJ Medicaid Takes Action to Ensure Nursing Home Residents Receive 
Their Federal Stimulus Checks



NJ Medicaid Takes Action to Ensure Nursing Home Residents Receive Their 
Federal Stimulus Checks

NJ Human Services Issues Guidance Making Clear Long-Term Care Facility 
Residents Are Entitled to Their Checks

May 21, 2020

(TRENTON) �  Department of Human Services Commissioner Carole Johnson today 
released guidance making clear that individuals with Medicaid coverage who 
reside in long-term care facilities are entitled to receive their federal 
stimulus payments and the payments cannot be retained by the facilities. 
Further, payments will not be counted as income or considered a Medicaid 
resource for up to a year. The federal CARES Act provided for economic 
stimulus payments of up to $1,200 per adult.

�Stimulus checks are your money whether you live in your own home or in a 
nursing facility,� Commissioner Johnson said. �We�ve heard concerns and 
questions from families about the status of this money for older adults 
living in long-term care facilities. With today�s action, we are reminding 
facilities that Medicaid payments are payment in full and stimulus payments 
are individuals� money for their own use.�

Under the guidance a facility must notify the resident or their authorized 
representative that the stimulus payment has been received and promptly make 
the resident�s stimulus payment available to access and spend.  The facility 
also should assist the resident in utilizing the funds for their personal 
needs.

Human Services Assistant Commissioner Jennifer Langer Jacobs, who oversees 
the state�s Medicaid program known as NJ FamilyCare, said facility residents 
or family members who suspect a facility is withholding a stimulus payment 
should contact the Medicaid program at 609-588-2556.

�Please don�t hesitate to call,� Assistant Commissioner Jacobs said. �We 
want to make certain that Medicaid recipients residing in long-term care 
facilities receive and have the ability to spend these stimulus payments.�

�Older adults living in long-term care facilities or their families deserve 
the dignity of choosing what to do with their stimulus check,� said Human 
Services� Division of Aging Services Director Louise Rush. �They can spend 
it or save it as they see fit, but the bottom line is this:  it�s their 
decision.�



Follow the Department of Human Services at:





Peri L. Nearon, MPA

Executive Director, Division of Disability Services



NJ Department of Human Services

11A Quakerbridge Plaza

PO Box 705

Trenton, NJ 08625-0705


Phone: 1-888-285-3036

Fax: 609-631-4365

http://www.state.nj.us/humanservices/dds/home/index.html










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