WAC 182-509-0065 MCS income--Gifts--Cash and noncash.

This section applies to medical care services.  A gift is an item furnished to an individual without work or cost on the individual's part. 

1. A cash gift is a gift that is furnished as money, cash, checks or any other readily negotiable form.  Cash gifts totaling no more than thirty dollars per calendar quarter for each assistance unit member are disregarded as income.

2. A noncash gift is treated as a resource.

a.  If the gift is a countable resource, its value is added to the value of the individual's existing countable resources and a determination is made on the impact to continue the individual's eligibility for MCS, per WAC 182-509-0005.

b.  If the gift is an excluded or noncountable resource, it does not affect the individual's eligibility or benefit level.