Important Information for FoodShare and Health Care

Proof/Verification

You are required to provide proof of your answers for FoodShare, BadgerCare Plus and Medicaid, when applying for benefits, renewing benefits or reporting changes. The following tables describe what is required and items you can use to provide proof.

Please Note: If you need help getting proof, contact your agency. They can help you. If you need the address or phone number of your local agency, go to dhs.wi.gov/em/customerhelp or call 1-800-362-3002.

If you have already given proof of citizenship and identity to the agency, you will not have to provide this information again. You will not have to provide proof of citizenship or identity if you are:

• Currently getting Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI)

• Currently getting Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits

• Currently receiving Medicare

• Applying for/enrolled in Emergency Services

• Applying for or enrolled in the BadgerCare Plus Prenatal plan

For FoodShare and Medicaid, you are given credit for some costs. For BadgerCare Plus Standard and Benchmark Plans you are given credit for child support you are court-ordered to pay to someone else. To get these credits, you must report and provide proof of the cost.

There are no credits for the BadgerCare Plus Core Plan.

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Last Revised: February 06, 2013