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title: "Delaware Nursing Home Medicaid | Funding LTC Marketplace"
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description: "Delaware's Nursing Facility Program requires medical and financial eligibility, with a $75 monthly personal-needs allowance."
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Delaware · Nursing Home Coverage

# Delaware Nursing Home Medicaid

Last updated 2026-10-20

Delaware's Nursing Facility Program pays for care at Delaware nursing facilities under contract with Medicaid. To qualify, DMMA requires applicants to be Delaware residents willing to enter a nursing facility and accept Medicaid coverage, and applications route through the Medicaid Central Intake Unit.

Clinically, these facilities serve residents who are elderly, infirm, or disabled, providing room, board, and nursing services. DMMA's medical criterion for the program requires a skilled or intermediate level of care as determined under Delaware Medicaid rules — a separate hurdle from the financial eligibility review that also has to be cleared.

Financially qualifying residents keep a personal-needs allowance of $75 per month, with the balance of income directed toward the cost of their care.

## Delaware figures

- Nursing-facility personal-needs allowance: $75/month

## Sources and official resources

- [Delaware DHSS: Long Term Care Medicaid Programs](https://dhss.delaware.gov/dmma/home/medicaid/long-term-care-medicaid-programs/)
- [CMS: 2026 SSI and Spousal Impoverishment Standards](https://www.medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/cib04272026.pdf)

Rules and figures change. Confirm current details with the agency before you act.

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