| DESCRIPTION OF ENHANCEMENTS |
The Means Test thresholds for Calendar Year 2015 are distributed with this
MT COPAY EXEMPT 1ST DEP INCOME (#3) - $6,396
MT COPAY EXEMPT INCOME PER DEP (#4) - $2,198
THRESHOLD PROPERTY (#8) - $80,000
CHILD INCOME EXCLUSION (#17) - $10,300
In addition, this patch will update the following fields in the
PARAMETERS file (#8989.5) for Income Year 2014 to:
DGMT MAPR GLOBAL RATE 5
DGMT MAPR 0 DEPENDENTS 12868
patch. The post-installation routine, DG53910P, will create a new subentry
DGMT MAPR 1 DEPENDENTS 16851
DGMT MAPR N DEPENDENTS 2198
This patch, DG*5.3*910 is one of three VistA 2015 threshold patches. It
updates the thresholds for the Means Tests and the Maximum Annual Pension
Rate. Patch EAS*1.0*125 will address the annual updates for the GMT
Thresholds and patch IB*2.0*540 will address the annual updates for the
Pharmacy Copay Thresholds.
(or replace an existing one) for calendar year 2015 in the MEANS TEST DATA
(#250) multiple field of the MAS PARAMETERS (#43) file. Six subfields
within the multiple will be updated with the new Means Test threshold data
values as follows:
MEANS TEST DATA (#.01) - 2015
MT COPAY EXEMPT VET INCOME (#2) - $31,978
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