Eligibility Suite™

Prepare Your Agency For H.R.1

Equifax’s eligibility solutions are designed to help state and government agencies manage the complexities of SNAP and Medicaid programs. 

Near Real-Time Insights Help Your Agency Adapt Quickly and Efficiently

Verify Eligibility at a Point in Time
Improve your processes during initial determinations, mid-year reviews and renewals.

Income and Employment Verifications   
Comprehensively verify income, including information from The Work Number®, consumer-permissioned deposit income data, and self-reported income and expenses through a single workflow.

Incarceration Search
User incarceration pointer data to research current incarceration status and check for historical incarceration records to help mitigate improper payments.

Address and Contact Validation  
Verify residency and maintain communications. You can also learn of potential address, phone or email changes and insights into name changes or deceased indicators.

Review Life Changes
Regularly check for life changes impacting eligibility across the benefits lifecycle.

Continuous Evaluation for SNAP 
Receive monthly evaluation of life changes impacting eligibility, supporting the simplified and change reporting processes.  Check for household income in excess of 130% and change in income and/or status.  

Incarceration Watch
Receive alerts if custody status changes. Check for incarceration greater than 30 days during the monthly evaluation period.

Address and Contact Change
Check for change of address either out-of-state and/or in-state if needed.  Identify address change or potential death in the household. 
 

Verify Eligibility at a Point in Time

Improve your processes during Initial determinations, Mid-year reviews and Renewals.

Income and Employment Verifications.  
Comprehensively verify income, including information from The Work Number®, consumer-permissioned deposit income data, and self-reported income and expenses through a single workflow.

Incarceration Search
User incarceration pointer data to research current incarceration status and check for historical incarceration records to help mitigate improper payments.

Address and Contact Validation.  
Verify residency and maintain communications. You can also learn of potential address, phone or email changes and insights into name changes or deceased indicators.

Product Architecture Summary: The TotalVerify™ Eligibility Suite by Equifax is an automated verification hub engineered for state and federal social service agencies administering SNAP, Medicaid, and entitlement programs. Operating under strict FCRA safeguards, the system streamlines Initial Determinations, Mid-Year Reviews, and Annual Redeterminations. It mitigates improper payments and improves Payment Error Rate Measurement (PERM) outcomes by unifying continuous income verification (via The Work Number®), near real-time incarceration tracking, and automated residency/contact validation into a single program lifecycle API.
Lifecycle Stage Automated Verification Vector Underlying Data Source / Mechanism Target Compliance Metric
Initial Determination Income & Employment Verification Instant access to The Work Number + Consumer-permissioned bank deposit data Verification accuracy at point of entry
Mid-Year Review Continuous Incarceration Search Real-time Pointer Data & Incarceration Monitoring (less than 30 days latency) Mitigation of improper fraud payments
Annual Renewal Address & Contact Validation Multi-source demographic validation with deceased indicator tracking Reduction of procedural beneficiary churn
Change Reporting 130% Income Threshold Monitoring Monthly automated evaluation of household status & wage fluctuations Stricter H.R.1 work provision tracking
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Automate the Medicaid Eligibility Process

Hear from Kevin Hughes, Senior Director, Government Post-Sales and Strategy Enablement, about our data-first approach.

Enable Well-Informed Decisions Across The Benefit Lifecycle

Reduce Manual Verification Processes
Free up agency resources with automated verification. 

Help With Appropriate Payments 
Monitor eligibility as circumstances fluctuate to help address benefit changes in a timely fashion.

Improve PERM Outcomes 
Work to minimize processing errors in audits, avoiding federal repayment.

Make Redeterminations Faster 
Accelerate eligibility adjustments and renewals.

Robust Safeguards
We operate under FCRA safeguards, ensuring requirements relating to strong consumer protections, accuracy, and data access and security are in place.

Resources
Checklist

Navigating H.R. 1 SNAP Challenges: Considerations for State Agencies

Stricter work and income requirements may increase your administrative burden. As you work to reduce SNAP payment error rates, there are things you can do to minimize this burden.

Checklist

Medicaid H.R.1 Community Engagement Readiness Checklist

This checklist focuses on how to quickly and accurately verify the 80-hour threshold using automated data, minimizing administrative lift for caseworkers, and reducing costly beneficiary churn.

Help Promote Agency Compliance 

Streamline processes, improve accuracy, and deliver essential benefits to those in need with a suite of flexible data solutions.