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Chapter: 1400 Technical Requirements Program: MSSI, SFP 56 Deny Medicaid assistance for an adult subject to child support cooperation if he/she does not express an intent to claim good cause or the intent to cooperate with Child Support Enforcement and authorize benefits for the other household members, if eligible. A referral to the Department of Revenue, Child Support Enforcement Agency to establish cooperation is not necessary when the individual expresses intent not to cooperate or claim “good cause”. 1440.1710 CSE Reports of Failure to Cooperate (MSSI) When Child Support Enforcement (CSE) directs the eligibility specialist to impose sanctions based upon a cash assistance group member's (including a child in a parent's grant in the case of a teen parent) noncompliance with Child Support Enforcement requirements, the eligibility specialist will:

1. take immediate action to impose sanctions on the entire cash assistance group. The applicant/recipient may reapply for the optional member(s), 2. take immediate action to remove the noncompliant individual from Medicaid unless that person is pregnant, and Note: (If pregnant, women will remain Medicaid eligible during the pregnancy and postpartum period as long as they meet all other factors of eligibility.) 3. apply "Riverside" provisions to the food stamp assistance group. 1440.1711 Ending Sanction (MSSI) Eligibility staff must:

1. Remove the sanction upon Child Support Enforcement’s request that the individual complied. 2. Add the individual back to Medicaid assistance (must meet all other factors of eligibility). 3. Not require an application.

Remove CSE imposed sanctions for noncooperation without CSE approval in the following situations:

1. When the last child subject to cooperation leaves the home. 2. When the last child subject to cooperation turns 18. 3. When the absent parent, based on established legal paternity, moves into the home and 4. When a non-legal parent moves into the home and completes the DH 432 acknowledging paternity and staff forwards the completed DH 432 to CSE or the Department of Health State Office of Vital Statistics.

The effective date for adding the sanctioned individual is retroactive to the first day of the month of compliance.