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DDB will contact the IM agency for applications that are not fully completed with names and addresses and work information. See Process Help Section 12.13.5 How to Resend an Application to DDB. 5.3.5 SSI Application Date Occasionally a person applies for SSI and is determined ineligible for SSI payments. In these cases, determine Medicaid eligibility from the SSI application date, if it is earlier than the Medicaid application date. An application for SSI is also an application for Medicaid. He or she must still meet all Medicaid eligibility requirements. You must request the SSI application date by using the state on line query (SOLQ). Use the SSI application date as the filing date if the member contacts the IM agency within the calendar month following the month of the SSI denial. If the contact to the IM agency is later than the above, the filing date is the regular date he or she applied at the IM agency. 5.3.6 Routine SSI Medicaid Extension An SSI Medicaid member is eligible for a redetermination of Medicaid eligibility and Medicare Savings Program (MSP) when SSI is terminated. Members that are eligible for Medicare should also be tested for the Medicare Savings Program unless the member requests not to be tested for the Medicare Savings Program. The person is allowed an extra month of SSI Medicaid eligibility and MSP to allow the IM agency to redetermine eligibility. The IM agency must fill the gap by ensuring continued Medicaid and MSP eligibility between the last date of SSI Medicaid and the date an eligibility determination for continuing Medicaid and MSP on another basis is completed (see Process Help Section 12.11 Routine SSI Medicaid Extension). Determining Medicaid and MSP eligibility should usually occur within the month after the person loses SSI. When a person applies for SSI and is denied, there is no obligation to "fill gaps.” The exception to this is in SECTION 5.3.5 SSI APPLICATION DATE. There is no fill the gap provision for those who lose their SSI eligibility because of: • Death • Leaving Wisconsin • Incarceration • Fleeing drug felon Reminder: For all cases (CARES and non-CARES), even if the member does not meet Medicaid eligibility requirements for the months between when he or she lost SSI and when you are re-determining eligibility, he or she is still eligible. Do not require the member to come into the office. Ineligibility starts, following timely notice, when he or she: • Does not return the application (the fiscal agent takes care of this), or • Fails to respond to an information request, or • No longer meets eligibility requirements (as of when the review or application is done). 5.3.7 Other SSI Medicaid Extensions Fill the gap between the loss of SSI Medicaid and an eligibility determination by the IM agency when: