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West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Chapter 7

West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Page 29 Chapter 7 Verification

The following applicants and clients are exempt from the requirement to provide documentary evidence of citizenship and identity: • Current Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients. • Retirement, Survivors and Disability Insurance (RSDI) recipients when receipt is based on disability. • Medicare enrollees, or those eligible to enroll in Medicare. • Individuals covered under Title IV-B child welfare services or Title IV-E foster care or adoption services. • A child born in the U.S. to a woman who was eligible for, and receiving, Medicaid on the date of the child’s birth. This includes a child born to a non-qualified non-citizen who received Medicaid for the birth only. 7.4.3 DOCUMENTS WHICH ESTABLISH U.S. CITIZENSHIP AND IDENTITY The following sections list acceptable evidence of U.S. citizenship and/or identity. The sections establish a hierarchy of citizenship documents and the instructions specify when a document of lesser reliability may be acceptable. • If a client presents documents from the Primary Documents list, no other information is required. • If a client does not present documents from Primary Documents list, an identity document must also be presented. 7.4.3.A Primary Documents to Establish U.S. Citizenship Primary documents to establish both citizenship and identity are outlined in the table below. Primary evidence conclusively establishes that the person is a U.S. citizen. The Worker should obtain primary evidence of citizenship and identity before using secondary evidence.

NOTE: See Section 7.4.3.E below for additional identity documents which may be used when a child is age 16 or younger.