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Manual Title Chapter Page Revision Date Virginia Medical Assistance Eligibility M02 July 2021 Subchapter Subject Page ending with Page M0240 SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER REQUIREMENTS M0240.001 2

3. Emergency- Services Aliens and other Non- Citizens An alien eligible for Medicaid payment of emergency services only, as defined in M0220.410 and M0220.41, is not required to provide or apply for an SSN. Any non-citizen who is only eligible to receive an SSN for a valid non-work reason is not required to provide or apply for an SSN. These individuals include, but are not limited to, undocumented aliens, non-citizens admitted to the U.S. on non-immigrant visas and individuals who do not intend to work in the U.S. and would only have needed an SSN for the purposes of receiving public assistance. C. Relationship to Other Medicaid Requirements An applicant who cannot provide documentation that he is a citizen or legally present at the time of application must sign an affidavit under oath attesting that he is a U.S. citizen or legally present in the U.S. in order to temporarily meet the requirement for proof of legal presence (see M0210.150). Submission of the affidavit without proof of application for an SSN does NOT meet the SSN requirement. D. Verification 1. Name The name entered in the official case record and computer enrollment systems for an applicant must match the applicant’s name on his Social Security card or Social Security Administration (SSA) records verification. It is important to spell the name correctly so that when the Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) sends the enrollee information to SSA for the Medicare Buy-in or the citizenship and identity match, the enrollee can be matched to SSA records. The Federally managed Data Services Hub verifies the individual’s name and SSN with the SSA for cases processed in the Virginia Case Management System (VaCMS). For an individual whose name and SSN cannot be verified in VaCMS and for all individuals whose cases are not processed in VaCMS, either the State Verification Exchange System (SVES) or the State Online Query-Internet system (SOLQ-I) SSA Title II and Title XVI results may be used. 2. SSN The individual’s SSN must be verified. The worker may use the SOLQ-I or SVES to verify an individual’s SSN. 3. Verification Systems - SVES & SOLQ-I SVES verifies the individual’s SSN, name spelling, entitlement to SSA benefits and the amount of the benefit, entitlement to SSI and the amount, and entitlement to Medicare & the Medicare premium amounts. SVES tells the worker what is wrong with the name, if the name is incorrectly spelled. The SOLQ-I verifies the individual’s SSN, entitlement to SSA benefits and the amount of the benefit, entitlement to SSI and the amount, and entitlement to Medicare & the Medicare premium amounts. SOLQ-I does not verify the individual’s name according to the SSA records. E. Procedure Section M0240.100 below explains in detail how to determine if an individual meets the SSN requirements when the individual or child does not have an SSN.