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ADDING A NEWBORN 5.6 MA AR : The effective date for adding a newborn to an MA case is the date of birth if: • the mother is eligible for and receiving MA on the date the child is born, or • the mother is determined retroactively to be eligible for the date the baby was born. This also applies to a child born to a non-qualified alien mother whose labor and delivery are covered by emergency Medicaid services. The newborn is deemed eligible for one year provided: • the mother remains eligible or would have remained eligible if she were still pregnant, and • the child remains in the same household as the mother. The one-year period begins the month following the month of birth. If the child loses his/her deemed eligibility, his eligibility must be redetermined. A newborn who is deemed eligible is not subject to the citizenship verification requirement until the first recertification after the newborn turns one-year- old (See Part IV, Section 7.12.5: US Citizen or National.) AX: See AR SR : N/A QM : N/A TANF The effective date for adding a newborn to an existing TANF case is the date of birth. The date of birth establishes the effective date of eligibility, but the child may not be added to the grant until all factors of eligibility have been verified. Technical factors of eligibility (such as applying for a SSN) are considered to be met retroactively to the date of birth if the person cooperates with the Department when the verification is requested. However, no underpayment can be issued for more than 12 months of lost benefits (see Section 6.5: Underpayments in Part VIII). GC N/A FS The effective date for adding a newborn to an existing FS unit is the month following the month in which the birth was reported. If the change is reported too late for DHS to affect the normal issuance cycle for the following month, the SSR shall issue supplementary benefits to the household’s EBT card and provide an opportunity for the household to obtain the increase in benefits by the 10th day of the month following the month in which the birth was reported. Households that report the birth by completing the “Request to Add newborns to D.C. Medicaid, Public Assistance, and Food Stamps Rolls" form at a hospital will be considered to have reported the birth to IMA on the date the form is signed. If the newborn does not have a social security number (SSN) and if the family has not already applied for an SSN, the SSR should instruct them on how do so, but should not delay in adding the newborn to the open food stamp case. A household has six months from the date of birth or six months from the last recertification— whichever is later—to apply for an SSN for a newborn. If the newborn has no SSN and the SSR does not know whether an application for an SSN has been filed (and, thus, has no SS-5 date), the SSR should enter a verification code of good cause (GC) on the SSDO screen. Restoration of lost benefits shall be provided to the household if DHS fails to take timely action on a correctly reported change that increases the household’s benefits. Since the effective date for adding a newborn is the month following the month in which the birth is reported, no proration of FS