Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court August 2, 1996 (Cohen v. Commissioner of the Division of Medical Assistance)

Fried, J.

These four cases raise a common issue in the administration of the Medicaid program that has recurred in virtually identical form throughout the United States. In the four cases before us, the Division of Medical Assistance (division) denied the plaintiffs’ eligibility for Medicaid benefits because it deemed that the plaintiffs had available to them sufficient resources of their own.