The this past year, April was the only month I made over the income threshold, but the rest of the months are significantly lower by several hundred dollars. My last tax return divided by 12 months is a few hundred dollars less per month than the Ohio requirement. Do they go by my tax return, or recent income? The problem is that I was in the hospital in March, which my income was lower than, and they said if approved, they retroactively pay back claims up to 90 days. My average income for the last 4 months after business expenses is only about 900 because I'm still looking for full time work that pays more than being an UBER driver. Would they deny the application just because one month happened to be higher than the threshold?
Keep all this in the back of your mind as eventually you too will be facing LTC either for yourself or your folks…….
Your ? is more about low-income Medicaid eligibility and I'd bet will involve your getting health insurance through ACA with a co-pay if your state has done Medicaid expansion or with Medicaid community health initiatives if no ACA done. I'd suggest you call whatever ACA health insurance exchanges are set up for Ohio to see how to get coverage and what you need to do to provide verifiable income.
btw if your getting SNAP cause your low income, states are really cutting back on unemployed childless adults eligibility unless you are working 20 hr a week & you have to take a job, no more its not commensurate with my education/training or prior salary. Otherwise it's 3 months only of SNAP.