Please help...residential school

[charmgirl]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? NY
Hello, how are you? Fine, I'm hoping. Please help me...
My son attends a residential school in p.a. (since 2000) and it's board of
ed funded. He has always had ny medicaid since 2000.
He just turned 18 and now his medicaid was transferred
without my knowledge to p.a. medicaid.
I'm not sure if this is a good idea.

One, isn't he still a ny resident because I'm his mom and live in ny?
I'm not sure if I should leave things this way.

Is this right?

[Proserpina]

Originally Posted by charmgirl

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? NY
Hello, how are you? Fine, I'm hoping. Please help me...
My son attends a residential school in p.a. (since 2000) and it's board of
ed funded. He has always had ny medicaid since 2000.
He just turned 18 and now his medicaid was transferred
without my knowledge to p.a. medicaid.
I'm not sure if this is a good idea.

One, isn't he still a ny resident because I'm his mom and live in ny?
I'm not sure if I should leave things this way.

Is this right?

He is now considered an adult - medicaid will be based on his residence, not yours.

What, incidentally, is the difference between the two?

[charmgirl]

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.
I'm not sure what the differences are between the two.
But he is a student, and therefore is in the state while attending school only.
I read on the pa department site that full time residents had to have a real address, or be wards of the state. It also is said by ssi 416 that he is only considered temporarily absent from the household if he is home when school is out, which is true as well.
In a way, I thought it was a blessing in disguise, but then his school said they don't accept his choice plan, so I had to switch that.
Plus if he is in N.Y. I would have to travel to Pennsylvannia in order for him to see a doctor.
His school told me that Pennsylvania is going to cut off his medicaid and he won't have any because they can't allow him to use the school address to establish residency.
My son cannot read, write or speak at all.
I was also told by his school that students have to have medicaid from the states that they come from. And that they just don't know what is happening now. She said it has happened to lots of students.
(But they mailed the card to NY so they know already in a sense.)
Plus his school said that it will cause trouble since he is funded by the NY State Board of Ed to attend that Private School. And that it's "double dipping". (I'm not so sure about that)
I'm sorry for giving you so much information, please excuse any that you don't need.