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Verification and Self-Attestation Understanding the Future State

Verification and Self-Attestation Understanding the Future State . Steve Novick, Oregon. OR Income Sources Survey. Survey of applicants to compare various sources’ reporting on income 1200 total surveys collected Findings have implications in 3 cases: Cases with no income

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Verification and Self-Attestation Understanding the Future State

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  1. Verification and Self-AttestationUnderstanding the Future State Steve Novick, Oregon

  2. OR Income Sources Survey Survey of applicants to compare various sources’ reporting on income 1200 total surveys collected Findings have implications in 3 cases: Cases with no income Cases with earnings Cases with unearned income

  3. Survey Findings: Cases w/ No income 361 applicants reported no income of any kind But databases showed income for many of them: wage earnings for 145 (out-of-date WAGE?) unearned income found online for 47 unearned income not found online for 22 (came up in conversation)

  4. Survey Findings: Cases w/ Earnings 743 applicants reported earnings or earnings were found Only 64 were on Work Number. 410 had earnings found on WAGE screens for the current employment (job) reported Not necessarily for current amount of wages Only 292 had earnings in Work Number or WAGE screens actually representative of their current earnings. 115 had self-employment income.

  5. Implications: Cases w/ Earnings Conclusions for cases with earnings: Work Number up to date but narrow scope WAGE wide scope but out of date Of the 743 cases with earnings, 451 were not ‘databaseable.’ What to do instead? Now: Ask for pay stubs; have conversations; ask for self-employment documentation Future: Self-attestation plus perhaps Oklahoma-style auditing plus perhaps warnings that we will do such auditing.

  6. Survey Findings: Cases w/ Unearned income 326 cases had unearned income found online 110 cases had unearned income not found online gifts, out of state unemployment, student income

  7. Implications: Cases w/ Unearned income Conclusions for cases with unearned income: Databases (unemployment benefits, SSI, etc.) reliable and up to date, but incomplete What to do instead? Now: Ask for paper, have conversations. Future: Will we have access to other states’ unemployment benefits, etc?

  8. A case for ‘self-attestation plus lookback’? The biggest issue is the untimeliness of the WAGE data eventually “catches up.” But in some cases nothing (except maybe tax returns) would ever “catch up” with self-attestations 115 self-employed 110 with ‘unearned income not found online.’

  9. Tax returns? • In a general population poll in Oregon, 52% indicated last year’s tax returns would represent their current income. • We suspect that would be much lower for people applying for health insurance. • Only 52% of people below 138% FPL file tax returns. • Thus, in Medicaid pop. you‘d expect that past tax returns would reflect current income for less than 27% of applicants. (52% of 52%)

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