There are several different medicaid long term care programs for which alabama seniors may be eligible these programs have slightly different financial and medical functional eligibility requirements as well as varying benefits further complicating eligibility are the facts that the requirements vary with marital status and that alabama offers multiple pathways towards medicaid eligibility. Alabama is an income cap state meaning that in order to be eligible for medicaid long term care benefits there is a hard income limit non income cap states allow applicants to spend down money for their care whereas income cap states require the amount to be no higher than their limit at time of application. Apply for medicaid in 2018 more than 1 million alabama citizens qualified for medicaid benefits through a variety of programs for children families and pregnant women as well as for elderly and or disabled people each medicaid program has its own requirements you must meet in order to qualify for benefits all programs have income . If alabama medicaid applies to your situation then in essence most of your income goes to the nursing home and medicaid picks up the rest so if you have only social security of 1500 a month and your nursing home room costs 7500 a month then alabama medicaid is going to cover the 6000 shortfall you have every month