| 30 | 30 | | (a) Eligibility for participation in the program shall be limited to any resident (1) who is sixty-five years of age or older or who is disabled, (2) whose current annual income at the time of application or redetermination, if unmarried, is less than twenty thousand eight hundred dollars or whose annual income, if married, when combined with that of the resident's spouse is less than twenty-eight thousand one hundred dollars, (3) who is not insured under a policy which provides full or partial coverage for prescription drugs once a deductible is met, except for a Medicare prescription drug discount card endorsed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services in accordance with Public Law 108-173, the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, or coverage under Medicare Part D pursuant to said act, and (4) on and after September 15, 1991, who pays an annual forty-five-dollar registration fee to the Department of Social Services. On January 1, 2012, and annually thereafter, the commissioner shall increase the income limits established under this subsection over those of the previous fiscal year to reflect the annual inflation adjustment in Social Security income, if any. Each such adjustment shall be determined to the nearest one hundred dollars. [On and after October 1, 2009, new applications to participate in the ConnPACE program may be accepted only from the fifteenth day of November through the thirty-first day of December each year, except that individuals may apply within thirty-one days of (A) reaching sixty-five years of age, or (B) becoming eligible for Social Security Disability Income or Supplemental Security Income.] The Department of Social Services shall accept new applications to participate in the ConnPACE program throughout each calendar year. |
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