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Webinar: Immigrant Eligibility for Insurance Affordability Programs

In this webinar presented on November 3, 2016, Shelby Gonzales, Senior Health Policy Analyst, and Halley Cloud, Health Outreach Manager, provide an overview of immigrant eligibility polices for coverage programs and help explain how to navigate the application process for families that include immigrants.

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Eligibility for Medicaid and CHIP Based on Immigration Status

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Eligible immigration statuses (video section, slides)

  • 5-year bar restriction
  • State flexibility

 

Eligibility for Marketplace Coverage Based on Immigration Status

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Eligible immigration statuses (video section, slides)

  • Undocumented and DACAmented individuals

Example: Eligibility based on immigration status (video section, slides)

 

Special Marketplace and PTC Eligibility

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Special marketplace rules for seniors (video section, slides)

  • Example: Over 65 individual

PTC for certain lawfully present people with low income (video section, slides)

  • Example: Family with income under 100% FPL

 

Navigating the Application Process

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Eligibility verification (video section, slides)

Data-matching issues (video section, slides)

  • Why data matching may be unsuccessful
  • Example: Immigration and citizenship verification
  • Tips to prevent and resolve data-matching issues (video section, slides)
  • Documents to prove immigration status
  • Documents to prove citizenship (video section, slides)

Data-matching issues for certain lawfully present people with low income (video section, slides)

  • Process A: Appears eligible for Medicaid
  • Process B: Treated as if in the Medicaid coverage gap

 

Identity Proofing for Healthcare.gov

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Importance of ID proofing

Process for ID proofing

 

Q&A

 

Additional Resources

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Key Facts: Immigrant Eligibility for Health Insurance Affordability Programs | View key facts

Key Facts: Application Process for Families that Include Immigrants | View key facts

Key Facts: Helping Families that Include Immigrants Apply for Health Coverage | View key facts

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