By skyforbes A friend recently moved to MS with her child and wanted to transfer her benefits (food stamps and Medicaid). At first MS Medicaid office told her she’d need her benefits to be cancelled in her prior state, when made sense and she did. She applied and was rejected and appealed.
Today on her appeal call they asked who the father of her child is, she does not know. They told her that before she is eligible for Medicaid in MS they would need to pursue child support from the father. There is no father on the birthday certificate, and she was unsure of who the father was and as such never pursued child support from the partners she was with and moved on. Apparently the child has it, but she is inedible because they want someone to pursue for child support.
I am just trying to get some insight for her because I cannot imagine she’s the only person in MS who cannot get child support/have the father on the birth certificate and it just doesn’t quite make sense in my head what she’s supposed to do.