My husband and I are still married, but have been living separately for 2 1/2 months. We barely made the cut off to qualify for Medi-Cal. Our daughter lives with me and we both have more expenses now that we are not living together. If I get a job (which I need to and intend to) we will make too much money to qualify. But since we are living separately, I should be able to qualify for myself and our daughter on my own even though we are still married right?
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Medi-Cal is a free health care program in California that is similar to Medicaid and they usually go by the total income of the household and do not always seek out husbands or fathers who should be contributing to the household income.
The quickest way to see if you qualify is to complete the application with whatever income you have right now and then notify them when you get a job and your income changes.
You should be receiving support from the child's father but this program may not even count any support payments as income so do not hesitate to apply.
You will have to complete the application form for Medi-Cal to see if you qualify.
This is a question for Medi-Cal. Since you are still married, your husband is expected to share in your daughter's expenses. If you were divorced and he was not contributing, it might be a different story.
Only Med Cal can answer that.
the best answer comes from Medi Cal itself but if your husband is gone and thus not contributing to your income that should not count against you. However any contributions/alimony/child support he provides would.
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