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West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Chapter 6

West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Page 7 Chapter 6 Data Exchanges

6.3 FEDERAL DATA EXCHANGES Regulations require that the Department of Human Services (DOHS) take the necessary steps to safeguard information received from data exchanges with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Prisoner Match, the Beneficiary and Earnings Data Exchange (BENDEX), and the Beneficiary Earnings Exchange Record System (BEERS) by restricting access to it. See Section 6.4. For individuals applying for MAGI Medicaid and WVCHIP, the primary data source used by the Worker is the Hub. When the Hub returns no information or when discrepancies exist between an individual’s self-attestation and Hub information, the Worker seeks verification from other electronic sources including those listed below. The reasonable compatibility provision applies to financial information. See Section 7.2.5. 6.3.1 DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY Through the FDH Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE), information related to citizenship/immigration may be returned. 6.3.2 INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE (IRS) The Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides specific authority at Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Sec. 6103(l)(21) for the IRS to provide individual tax information for use in determining eligibility for MAGI Medicaid and WVCHIP through the FDH. This IRS information may include: • The taxpayer identity; • Filing status; • Family size; • Modified Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI); and • The tax year to which any such information relates, or that no information is available. Through the federal data exchange that is used in place of the Hub for programs other than MAGI Medicaid and WVCHIP, the IRS unearned interest income is available on or around the 15th of each month. Information received includes: • Asset and income information reported to IRS; • Income type;