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and to provide assistance or services for clients, and with whom information is exchanged for purposes of administration of the TANF, Child Support or other MDHS programs include: 1. Department of Human Services (public assistance) agencies in other states 2. Division of Medicaid and its fiscal agent 3. Department of Rehabilitation Services 4. Social Security Administration and the Department of Treasury 5. Department of Health through its state or county health offices 6. State Department of Mental Health and the Regional Mental Health Centers 7. Housing authorities, the state or local administrator 8. State mental hospitals and general hospitals, health services providers 9. Mississippi Department of Employment Security 10. Veterans Administration 11. State Department of Education, county and local school districts. No lists of names of applicants or recipients shall be released to these or other agencies, except as specified. See electronic data exchange description in this volume. Other releases of information shall be on request from the agency and the purpose must reasonably relate to the function of the Department's programs and to the function of the agency requesting the information. If an agency makes a request for information which that agency normally would be determining for itself and which is not in favor of the client, the request will be denied. DISCLOSURE TO CLIENT OR CLIENT REPRESENTATIVE The case record is not available for examination by the applicant or recipient or his authorized representative. MDHS reserves the right to withhold any information which pertains to medical and medical social facts or severe social problems such as illegitimacy, incest, neglect and abuse of children or adults, marital discord, and other serious conditions and changes. The county director will release certain information to a client or his authorized representative when authorized in writing as follows:

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