Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services

In Illinois, September HR1 work requirements notices are mailed.

HFS mailed notices to ACA population Medicaid customers who may be affected by work requirements in six-month redeterminations starting in 2027.

In

Missouri, Missouri established a 49 per hour work week service limitation for independent living waiver services.

It's been hard for me to collect the data in other states just because I'm not a citizen.

But I asked HFS, which would be our state's HHS type of data.

directive.

And I said, hey, how many kids do we have on Social Security getting benefits and they don't have a registered Social Security number? Give me the ages of these children.

I'm not really sure, but it looks like this is maybe happening too in Illinois.

Right, and these are all anything that's coded in the medical field.

I got this from HFS again.

This is our medical agency.

The first is for the community members who are covered by Medicaid.

Um, a few, a few areas of focus there, um, for them, uh, a link out to key websites, for example, uh, HFS is our Medicaid, uh, administrator in Illinois.

It's, uh, a link out directly to where, uh, individuals can check their addresses, their contact information, and if it's wrong, they can update it.

That's one of those administrative, uh, areas where we see people falling off, where they might move and the state doesn't get that update, and the paperwork doesn't get where it needs to go, and they end up dropping off the rolls.