Northwest Environmental Defense Center v. Brennen

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• holding that state properly counted court-ordered child-support payments as available income for Medicaid purposes
• noting that excluding the full amount of a child support obligation from the \available\ income of a Medicaid recipient would lead to unintended subsidization of a disproportionate amount of health care benefits
• noting that excluding the full amount of a child support obligation from the “available” income of a Medicaid recipient would lead to unintended subsidization of a disproportionate amount of health care benefits
• legislative history did not “foreclose[j” Secretary’s interpretation; Medicaid statute “is ambiguous on whether the entire amount of court-ordered child-support payments must be considered unavailable income”
• oversight in not disposing of third-party claims does not bar appellate jurisdiction
• Alaska permitted a deduction for a portion, but not all, of child support payments; a portion of income used to pay court-ordered child support was “available”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).