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status is automatically evaluated for an HSRI plan and is informed if such coverage options are available in the eligibility determination notice. B. The State verifies self-attestations and attestations of citizenship and satisfactory immigration status through designated electronic Federal and State data sources through the IES to the full extent feasible. Rhode Island resident children under the age of nineteen (19) are not subject to eligibility requirements related to citizenship and immigration status 1. Exemptions – The provisions set forth in this Part related to citizenship and immigration status do not apply to the following exempt persons/coverage groups: a. Persons eligible on the basis of the current or past receipt of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) as specified under Part 40-05-1 of this Title. b. Anyone entitled to or enrolled in any part of Medicare, including applicants for the Medicaid Premium Payment Program (MPPP) pursuant to Part 40- 05-1 of this Title. c. Recipients of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and/or federally authorized and funded rehabilitative services, administered through the Rhode Island Department of Human Services (DHS) or the Rhode Island Office of Rehabilitative Services (ORS) seeking any type of Medicaid coverage; d. Children and youth, up to age twenty-one (21), who are in the care and custody of the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) and/or participating in foster care and adoption subsidy assistance and maintenance programs and former foster care youth eligible under the Federal Chafee Independent Act pursuant to Part 30- 00-1 of this Title; e. Newborns deemed eligible for Medicaid or CHIP in accordance with Part 30-00-1 of this Title. 2. Citizenship – An applicant has met the Medicaid citizenship eligibility requirement when the applicant is an adult and has made a self-attestation of United States citizenship, or the applicant is a minor or incapacitated person and an adult living in the same household or an authorized representative has made a declaration of citizenship on the behalf of the minor or incapacitated person; and the declaration has been verified by an authorized electronic data source. 3. Immigration status – An applicant has met the Medicaid/CHIP immigration status requirement when the applicant has made a self-attestation of satisfactory immigration status; or an attestation of such status has been made on the