The local agency shall verify the eligibility factors, in determining the medical assistance eligibility of the applicant. The local agency must not require an applicant or recipient to verify more than once an eligibility factor not subject to change and available in existing medical assistance files of the local agency.
The applicant shall provide all necessary information and documents and give the local agency written authorization to contact sources who are able to verify the required information to the local agency. An applicant who refuses to authorize verification of an eligibility factor including a social security number shall be denied medical assistance eligibility.
Minn. R. agency 196, ch. 9505, MEDICAL ASSISTANCE ELIGIBILITY, pt. 9505.0095
Statutory Authority: MS s 256B.04