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Youths may be eligible for BadgerCare Plus as a FFCY until they turn 26 years old. A 12-month renewal is required to continue eligibility. Note If a FFCY is included in another household member's assistance group (AG), their financial information, including tax filing information, may be required to determine eligibility for those other household members. This page last updated in Release Number: 26-03 Release Date: 08/12/2026 Effective Date: 06/20/2026 12.1 Migrant Workers A "migrant worker" is a person who temporarily leaves their principal place of residence outside Wisconsin and comes to Wisconsin for not more than ten months per year in order to accept seasonal employment in the planting, cultivating, raising, harvesting, handling, drying, packing, packaging, processing, freezing, grading, or storing any agricultural or horticultural commodity in its unmanufactured state and is authorized to work in the U.S. "Migrant worker" does not include the following: • A person who is only employed by a Wisconsin resident, and the employer or the employer's spouse is the person's child, parent, grandchild, grandparent, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, niece, or nephew. • A student who is enrolled (or has been enrolled during the past six months) in any school, college, or university, unless the student is a member of a household that contains a migrant worker. Certain migrant workers and their families qualify for a simplified application procedure when applying for BadgerCare Plus or Medicaid in Wisconsin (see SECTION 12.4.2 SIMPLIFIED APPLICATION PROCEDURE FOR MIGRANT WORKERS). This page last updated in Release Number: 25-02 Release Date: 04/09/2025 Effective Date: 04/09/2025 12.2 Nonfinancial Eligibility for Migrant Workers Migrant workers have the same nonfinancial eligibility requirements as other BadgerCare Plus or Medicaid applicants and members, with one exception: Migrant workers can meet the residency requirement if they are currently living in Wisconsin but do not "intend to reside" in Wisconsin (see SECTION 3.1 RESIDENCE). Standard BadgerCare Plus and Medicaid rules are used when determining who is included in the migrant worker's assistance group (see CHAPTER 2 BADGERCARE PLUS GROUP and Medicaid Eligibility Handbook Section 15.1.1 Elderly, Blind, or Disabled Fiscal Test Group). This page last updated in Release Number: 24-02 Release Date: 08/22/2024 Effective Date: 08/22/2024