DHA Case No. MKB 214020 (Wis. Div. Hearings and Appeals Oct. 17, 2024) (DHS) ↓ Download PDF To be considered disabled for the Katie Beckett program, a child must have an impairment that causes marked and severe functional limitations. In this case, a 5-year-old girl was determined no longer eligible after her recertification in January […] Read more
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DHA Case No. MKB 213737 (Wis. Div. Hearings and Appeals Aug. 22, 2024) (DHS) ↓ Download PDF To be considered disabled for the Katie Beckett program, a child must have an impairment that causes marked and severe functional limitations. In this case, a 4-year-old boy’s application was denied because his speech delay, pediatric feeding disorder, […] Read more
DHA Case No. MKB 213619 (Wis. Div. Hearings and Appeals Aug. 12, 2024) (DHS) ↓ Download PDF To be considered disabled for the Katie Beckett program, a child must have an impairment that causes marked and severe functional limitations. In this case, the petitioner was a 15-year-old boy who had hearing loss, narcolepsy, and sleep […] Read more
DHA Case No. CWK 211595 (Wis. Div. of Hearings and Appeals March 22, 2024) (DHS) ↓ Download PDF The legal standards of functional eligibility for the Children’s Long-Term Support (CLTS) Waiver program and for the Katie Beckett program are identical. In this odd case, the petitioner was determined functionally ineligible for her CLTS renewal by […] Read more
DHA Case No. MKB 200031 (Wis. Div. of Hearings and Appeals January 14, 2021) (DHS) ↓ Download PDF Mosaic Down Syndrome and non-mosaic Down Syndrome are treated differently under the Social Security disability rules. The latter is listed as a severe impairment and automatically meets the requirements; the former is not. So for mosaic Down […] Read more
DHA Case No. MKB 207607 (Wis. Div. of Hearings and Appeals April 28, 2023) (DHS) ↓ Download PDF To qualify for the Katie Beckett Medicaid program, a child must meet the Social Security standards for childhood disability, which requires “a disabling impairment … that causes marked and severe functional limitations.” In this case, the child […] Read more
DHA Case No. MKB 200405 (Wis. Div. of Hearings and Appeals January 6, 2021) (DHS) ↓ Download PDF The final step in the disability determination process for the Katie Beckett program is determining if the child has “marked limitations” in two of six domains or an “extreme limitation” in one. In this case, the DDB […] Read more
DHA Case No. MKB 200264 (Wis. Div. of Hearings and Appeals January 11, 2021) (DHS) ↓ Download PDF The final step in the disability determination process for the Katie Beckett program is determining if the child has “marked limitations” in two of six domains or an “extreme limitation” in one. In this case, the DDB […] Read more