{"data":{"id":"us-ia/iowa-code-249a.30a","jurisdiction":"us-ia","citation":"Iowa Code § 249A.30A","heading":"Medical assistance — personal needs allowance.","body":"1. The personal needs allowance under the medical assistance program, which may be retained by a person who is a resident of a nursing facility, an intermediate care facility for persons with an intellectual disability, or an intermediate care facility for persons with mental illness, as defined in section 135C.1, or a person who is a resident of a psychiatric medical institution for children as defined in section 135H.1, shall be fifty-five dollars per month.\n2. A resident who has income of less than fifty-five dollars per month shall receive a supplement from the state in the amount necessary to receive a personal needs allowance of fifty-five dollars per month. The general assembly shall annually appropriate a sufficient amount from the general fund of the state to the department of health and human services for this purpose.","path":["Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES (Ch. 216 - 255A)","Chapter 249A - MEDICAL ASSISTANCE","Subchapter I - MEDICAL ASSISTANCE ELIGIBILITY AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS"],"source_url":"https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/code/2026/249A.30A.pdf","current_through":"Iowa Code 2026 edition","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:40:06Z","sha256":"3a88eb31f96627022bdf0716b226f06856e1a313d90d0b120c235cf92020335c","source_id":"us-ia","stale":false,"prev":"us-ia/iowa-code-249a.30","next":"us-ia/iowa-code-249a.31"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}