Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act (TEFRA)
An MA option that provides eligibility to some disabled children who live with their families.
TEFRA
Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act. An MA option that provides eligibility to some disabled children who live with their families.
Temporary Absence
A period of time a person may be physically absent from a residence but still considered to be in the household.
Ten-Day Notice
Notification sent to the client at least ten calendar days before the effective date of an agency action. Most adverse actions, such as denial, reduction, or termination of health care benefits, require ten-day notice.
Tenants-In-Common
A form of property ownership in which each owner of real property has an undivided interest in the property and is able to sell their share of the property without obtaining the permission of the other owners.
Tennessen Notice
The former name of the statement of rights given to people who are asked to provide private or confidential data about themselves. This statement is now known as the Notice of Privacy Practices.
Term Certain Annuity
An annuity under which payments are scheduled to continue for a specified period of time, such as for 10 years, irrespective of the annuitant's lifetime.
Termination
A discontinuation of program participation and benefits. Also known as cancellation and closure.
Third Party Liability (TPL)
The obligation of a person or organization other than MA or MinnesotaCare to pay for a person's medical expenses. Examples of TPL include group or private health insurance, auto insurance, worker's compensation, and personal liability insurance.
Third Party Payment
A person or entity other than the client pays for the cost of a medical expense.
Three Generation Household
A household consisting of an adult parent, the child of the adult parent who is a minor caretaker and the minor caretaker's child.
Thrift Savings Plan (TSP)
A federal government sponsored retirement defined contribution plan for federal employees. Congress established the TSP in the Federal Employees’ Retirement System Act of 1986. The purpose of a TSP is to provide retirement income. Contributions are held in individual accounts rather than in a trust fund, and employees usually have considerable say over how their funds are invested. Most thrift plans allow participants to borrow against the balances in their accounts or to make early withdrawals in cases of financial hardship.
Time Deposits
Another term for a savings account or certificate of deposit (CD) held in a financial institution, usually a bank.
Timely Notice
A notice sent in advance of the proposed action as required by program rules.
Title IV-D
The part of the Social Security Act that authorizes establishing paternity and collecting child and medical support by the IV-D unit.
Title IV-E Adoption Assistance
Federal funding for adoption assistance for children who meet IV-E requirements.
Title IV-E Foster Care
Federal funding for foster care for children who meet IV-E requirements.
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
A national law that protects people from discrimination based on their race, color, or national origin for programs that receive federal financial assistance through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Title XIX
The section of the Social Security Act authorizing the MA Program.
TMA
Transitional Medical Assistance. Up to four months of additional medical coverage provided to some people terminated from regular MA because of increased child or spousal support.
Tort Liability
The legal obligation of a party responsible for an accident or injury to pay for the resulting costs.
Tort Settlement
Compensation awarded because of a lawsuit filed to recover costs related to an accident or injury.
TPL
Third Party Liability. The obligation of a person or organization other than MA or MinnesotaCare to pay for a person's medical expenses. Examples of TPL include group or private health insurance, auto insurance, worker's compensation, and personal liability insurance.
Transfer
To cause right, title, or interest in real or personal property to pass from one person to another.
Transferee
The entity who received a transferred asset. A transferee could be a person or a group of people, a corporation, a trust or some other legal entity recognized by law as having right and duties.
Transferor
The person who owned an asset at the time of the transfer. A transferor can be the individual who is subject to the transfer penalty, the individual's spouse, or both the individual and his or her spouse.
Transition Year Medical Assistance (TYMA)
Up to 12 months of additional medical coverage provided to some people terminated from regular MA due to increased earnings, loss of earned income disregards, or a combination of increased child/spousal support and increased earnings/loss of earned income disregards.
Transitional Medical Assistance (TMA)
Up to four months of additional medical coverage provided to some people terminated from regular MA because of increased child or spousal support.
TRICARE
A Department of Defense health insurance program providing coverage to active-duty and non-active duty members of the armed forces and their dependents, and certain civilian employees. This program was formerly known as CHAMPUS.
TRICARE for Life
A Department of Defense health insurance program providing Medicare supplement entitlement for Medicare-eligible military retirees and their dependents. To receive coverage a person must be over age 65 and have Medicare Part B.
Trust
Any arrangement in which a grantor transfers money or property to a trustee with the intention that it be held, managed or administered by the trustee for the benefit of certain designated persons.
Trust Agreement
The legal documentation establishing a trust.
Trust Corpus
The assets and undisbursed income held in a trust, also referred to as the trust principal, estate or res (Latin for the subject matter of a trust or will). Assets and undisbursed income held in a trust are owned by (titled to) the trust and are not owned by the client. The trust corpus of a trust, however, may be available to the client.
Trust Instrument
The formal document that creates a trust and contains the powers of the trustees and the rights of the beneficiaries. A trust instrument can be a will or a formal declaration of a trust. Sometimes referred to as the Trust Agreement.
Trust Principal
Also known as Trust Corpus. Income and/or assets that form the main body of a trust. Assets or income in the trust corpus may be available to a person but the person no longer owns them.
Trustee
The person or entity who manages a trust corpus. When two or more trustees manage trust funds at the same time, they are referred to as co-trustees.
Trustor
See Grantor.
TSP
Thrift Savings Plan. A federal government sponsored retirement defined contribution plan for federal employees. Congress established the TSP in the Federal Employees’ Retirement System Act of 1986. The purpose of a TSP is to provide retirement income. Contributions are held in individual accounts rather than in a trust fund, and employees usually have considerable say over how their funds are invested. Most thrift plans allow participants to borrow against the balances in their accounts or to make early withdrawals in cases of financial hardship.
TYMA
Transitional Year Medical Assistance. Up to 12 months of additional medical coverage provided to some people terminated from regular MA due to increased earnings, loss of earned income disregards, or a combination of increased child/spousal support and increased earnings/loss of earned income disregards.