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OTHER ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS LEGALLY RESPONSIBLE RELATIVES (LRRs) PARENTS AND CHILDREN

IV-D REQUIREMENTS

(3) Medicaid worker or an appropriate designee determines whether an A/R who claims to have good cause for refusing to cooperate does have good cause that can be verified.

(4) refers to the CSEU cases which include a non-pregnant child under age 21 whose paternity has not been established or whose parent(s) are absent from the home unless they are in a child-only MA case. Mails or provides the DSS-2860 form and informs A/Rs who are required to appear in the CSEU that they must bring the completed DSS-2860 to their CSEU interview. Applicants are referred to the CSEU prior to their eligibility determination or, if practicable, prior to their eligibility interview;

(5) obtains necessary documentation from A/Rs;

(6) takes appropriate action (notices and procedures) when notified by CSEU via the DSS-2859, Child Support Information Transmittal that an A/R who is not pregnant has failed to cooperate.. The A/R’s children are not denied or discontinued from Medicaid for this reason;

(7) takes appropriate action in Medicaid cases reported in the IV- D/Medicaid Interface Report and in DSS-2859 referrals from the CSEU. The weekly IV-D/IV-A Interface Report provides information to Medicaid workers about status changes in child support cases, including location of absent parents, paternity establishment, support order actions and third party health insurance coverage; (MRG)