The CAO must count profit from self-employment as gross income when deciding on a individual’s eligibility for Medical Assistance (MA). To figure out profit, the CAO must subtract the costs of getting the income from the total amount received. 55 Pa. Code § 181.92 55 Pa. Code § 181.272
The CAO must allow a individual to take the following deductions from profit:
Earned income deduction.
Personal deduction.
Work incentive deduction.
NOTE: For Healthy Beginnings cases, the TANF-related and GA-related NMP rules apply.
The individual must cooperate in getting proof of his or her total receipts from self-employment and his or her costs of doing business. 55 Pa. Code § 181.3
Types of proof include, but are not limited to, the following:
Written statements from tenants, roomers, boarders, or roomer/boarders;
Business records.
Tax returns from the year before.
Self-employment form for MAWD (see Chapter 316, Section 316.22, Employment)
Updated February 14, 2012, Replacing July 9, 2008