This amendment modifies the Welfare Fraud Prevention Act by adjusting implementation deadlines, requiring medicaid eligibility cards, establishing county anti-fraud procedures, expanding data sources for eligibility verification, and standardizing verification review intervals to monthly.
- Changes the implementation deadline for multistate enrollment submission from October 1, 2029 to October 1, 2027. (Page 4, line 23)
- Requires the department of health to issue identification cards to medicaid-eligible persons verifying their eligibility. (Page 10, line 17)
- Adds requirement that the department notify applicants and recipients about the requirement to provide a social security number at application and as needed thereafter. (Page 11, after line 15)
- Requires county boards of commissioners to establish and submit to state agencies systematic anti-fraud procedures by January 1, 2028, including procedures to identify, investigate and resolve potential fraud cases prior to eligibility determinations, with review utilizing the income eligibility verification system. (Page 11, after line 15)
- Expands the agencies that receive referrals of illegal aliens to include the local sheriff and the Wyoming office of homeland security in addition to existing recipients. (Page 11, line 23)
- Expands the data sources for eligibility verification to include unearned income from the Internal Revenue Service, Wyoming income and unemployment insurance benefits, veterans benefits and medical database information, Wyoming daycare subsidies, and the low-income energy assistance program utility expenses database. (Page 12, lines 13-18)
- Removes discretionary language and standardizes all eligibility verification review intervals throughout the statute to occur not less than on a monthly basis, eliminating references to periodic or recertification periods. (Page 17, lines 17-18; Page 18, lines 1-25; Page 19, lines 3-22; Page 20, lines 3-15)
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