Effect on Medicaid of Restoring Eligibility to Those Who Lost It because of Cost-of-Living Increases in Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance

The wide variation in State Medicaid eligibility standards makes it difficult to assess the possible effects on the Social Security Act's title XIX (Medicaid) program of an amendment which would restore Medicaid eligibility to those who lost it because of the 1974, 1975, and 1976 cost-of-living increases in social security retirement, survivors, and disability benefits.