Medicaid Spousal Impoverishment Standards for 2008

Effective January 1, 2008, the Medicaid spousal impoverishment standards will be as follows:

Minimum Community Spouse Resource Standard - $20,880.00

Maximum Community Spouse Resource Standard - $104,400.00

Maximum Monthly Maintenance Standard - $2,610.00

The minimum monthly maintenance standard remains $1,711.25 until July 1, 2008.

The 2008 standards are based on an increase in the CPI (all urban consumers) of 74.0 percent between September 1988 and September 2007.

CPIU September 1988 - 119.8
CPIU September 2007 - 208.5
Percent Increase - 74.0

The annual CPI increase from September 2006 to September 2007 was 2.8 percent.