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The Southern Regional Initiative to Improve Access to Benefits for Low Income Families With Children

February 1998

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Exhibits and Tables

Executive Summary

Chapter 1: Introduction

• Southern Regional Initiative to Improve Access to Benefits for Low Income Familiies With Children
• Development of Information Outreach Materials
• State Site Visits
• Southern Regional Forum
• Summary of Report

Chapter 2: Information Outreach

• Initial Development of Information Outreach Brochures
• Replication of the Information Outreach Brochures in the Southern States
• Information Outreach Videos

Chapter 3: Child Health Coverage

• Medicaid Income Eligibility Levels for Children
• Medicaid Age Groups for Children
• Section 1931 Medicaid Eligibility
• Asset Testing
• Transitional Medicaid
• Medicaid Eligibility Outreach
• Medicaid Application Process
  • Application Locations
  • Face-to-Face Application Requirements
  • Verification Requirements
    • Income Verification
    • Age of Children Verification
    • Eligibility Worker Discretion Regarding Verification
    • Verification Check Lists
  • Application Processing Period
• Maintaining Eligibility
• Measuring Eligibility Outcomes
• Actions That Can Improve Access to Child Health Coverage

Chapter 4: Child Care Assistance

• Sufficiency of Child Care Funding
• Targeting Child Care Assistance to Welfare Related Groups
• Asset Testing
• Child Care Eligibility Process
  • Eligibility Determination and Redetermination
  • Verification Requirements
  • Continuity of Eligibility
• Information Outreach
• State Collaboration with Head Start
• State Strategies to Improve Access to Child Care Assistance
• Actions That Can Improve Access to Child Care

Chapter 5: Transportation

• Transportation Strategies
• Asset Testing
• Actions Needed to Help Families Overcome Transportation Barriers

Chapter 6: Earned Income Tax Credit

• Outreach
• Asset Testing
• Actions Needed to Improve Access to EITC and Actions Needed to Remove EITC Barriers to Medicaid Eligibility

Chapter 7: Federal Developments

Glossary

Appendix

1. State Contacts for Southern Institute Site Visits
2. Southern Regional Forum Program
3. Georgia Outreach Brochures
4. South Carolina Partners for Healthy Children Application
5. State-by-State Data on AFDC Application Denials
6. State Contacts for Information on Head Start Collaboration