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Prior to July 2013, ODJFS was also the state agency responsible for the administration of Ohio's Medicaid program. In July 2013, a new state agency was created, the Ohio Department of Medicaid (ODM), Ohio’s first Executive-level Medicaid agency. ODJFS employs about 2,300 full time employees and has an annual budget of $3.3 billion. [2]
Michael B. Colbert is the director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS), a $20-plus billion agency with nearly 4,000 employees. ODJFS is the largest agency in the state and is responsible for supervising the state's public assistance, workforce development, unemployment compensation, child and adult protective services, adoption, child care, and child support programs.
Medicaid Waiver programs help provide services to people who would otherwise be in an institution, nursing home, or hospital to receive long-term care in the community. Prior to 1991, the Federal Medicaid program paid for services only if a person lived in an institution.
The history of Medicaid suggests the expansion would continue to spread if the Affordable Care Act were left in place. When the program launched more than 50 years ago, just over half the states signed up in the first two years. The last state to join, Arizona, didn’t begin participating until 1982.
Image source: Getty Images. 1. Your spouse must qualify for benefits. If your spouse is eligible for either retirement or disability benefits, you could receive up to 50% of their full benefit ...
Nearly 70 million Americans rely on Social Security for monthly income. The vast majority, about 65 million, collect Social Security benefits. Another 4.5 million receive Supplemental Security ...
But those don't apply to spousal benefits. Your spousal benefits max out at 50% of the sum your spouse is entitled to at FRA. So there's no sense in delaying a spousal benefit claim beyond your ...
As initially passed, the ACA was designed to provide universal health care in the U.S.: those with employer-sponsored health insurance would keep their plans, those with middle-income and lacking employer-sponsored health insurance could purchase subsidized insurance via newly established health insurance marketplaces, and those with low-income would be covered by the expansion of Medicaid.