DSL Memo Series 2001 -26

November 13, 2001

STATE OF WISCONSIN 
Department of Health and Family Services
Division of Supportive Living 

To: 
County Departments of Human Services Directors
County Departments of Social Services Directors

From: Sinikka McCabe, Administrator

Re: FOLLOW-UP TO DSL ADMINISTRATOR'S MEMO 2001-16
STATE ONLY SSI AND MEDICAID BENEFITS

Attached are two identical copies of a report listing individuals in your county for whom eligibility for cash benefits and Medicaid through the State Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Program is being terminated due to excess unearned income. These individuals have been notified by mail that their final cash payment from the State SSI Program will arrive on December 1, 2001. They have further been informed that their Medicaid has been extended through January 31, 2002 by the State SSI Program to afford them the opportunity to apply for or be tested for Medicaid at their local Medicaid agency. The change in eligibility processing which resulted in these terminations of eligibility for recipients of State SSI benefits only was discussed in DSL Administrator's Memo 2001-16 (attached).

We are sending you two copies of this listing so that you may provide one to your Economic Support Manager and one to your Long Term Support Manager. Depending on the number of people that are impacted by the terminations of eligibility in your county, your Economic Support Manager may wish to use the listing to anticipate workload issues or assign cases. Your Long Term Support Manager will need the listing to determine whether any COP or Medicaid Wavier recipients are affected. These affected recipients will be losing their status as a Medicaid Waiver participant under Group A for financial eligibility and may be subject to cost sharing for their long term support services beginning February 1, 2002.

We are also sending you a copy of the notices of change that were sent to affected individuals. We sent a slightly different notice (attached) to individuals already in your agency CARES caseload than we sent to individuals who need to complete a full application for Medicaid in order to be tested by your agency for some other category of Medicaid. Individuals who received the latter notice were also sent a Medicaid application packet that will be forwarded to your agency by EDS if the individual completes it and mails it back to EDS.

Some of the individuals affected by this change have already filed for a fair hearing to dispute termination of SSI cash benefits and SSI Medicaid. If ordered to do so, the Department will continue benefits to these individuals until a fair hearing decision is made.

Please distribute the attached reports to your Economic Support and Long Term Support Managers immediately. You may address any question regarding the reports to Kathleen Luedtke, SSI Coordinator, at (608) 266-6890.

Thank you for your assistance and cooperation with this request.

REGIONAL OFFICE CONTACT:
Area Administration Team

CENTRAL OFFICE CONTACT: 
Kathleen Luedtke
SSI Coordinator
(608) 266-6890

Attachments

cc:
Area Administrators/Assistant Area Administrators
Bureau Directors
County Departments of Community Programs Directors
County Departments of Developmental Disabilities
Services Directors
County Long Term Support Coordinators
County IM Managers
Licensing Chiefs/Section Chiefs
Tribal Chairpersons/Human Services Facilitators
Bureau Director, Health Care Eligibility

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