This memo announces clarifications to the use of pay stubs to verify financial eligibility when the pay stubs do not accurately represent prospective income.

The purpose of this memo is to provide information about the Department of Health Services Fraud Prevention and Investigation Program operation and funding for calendar year 2023.

This operations memo announces new policies for annual income-based eligibility determinations for BadgerCare Plus, which are also known as “gap filling” determinations. These policy changes coincide with changes to automate such eligibility determinations in CARES. With these changes, the manual eligibility determination process previously used will be discontinued.

This memo provides final funding notice of the base Income Maintenance Administrative Allocation for Income Maintenance Programs for the period January 1, 2023, through December 31, 2023 (Calendar Year 2023), for Consortia; and October 1, 2022, through September 30, 2023, (Federal Fiscal Year 23), for the tribal agencies.

The purpose of this memo is to communicate information about enhanced federal funding for eligibility and enrollment activities under the Income Maintenance contract between the Department of Health Services and Consortia for the period of January 1, 2021 through December 31, 2021.

The purpose of this memo is to communicate information about the addition of incentive funds earned for the Estate Recovery Program for counties within the Consortium under the Income Maintenance contract between the Department of Health Services and Consortia for the period of January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2022.

This operations memo provides income maintenance (IM) agencies with information about how to implement the 2023 Federal Poverty Level (FPL) income guidelines for the BadgerCare Plus, Medicaid and SeniorCare programs, as well as the updated tables, effective dates, and cross references for these programs.

This purpose of this Operations Memo is to introduce the 2023 Federal Poverty Level (FPL) and State Median Income (SMI) that is used in determining financial eligibility for the Wisconsin Shares child care subsidy program.