E-Mail 2011-03: Update on the Elderly/Disabled Waiver (4/15/2011)

Update on the Elderly/Disabled Waiver

The elderly/disabled waiver is still in a suspended status. In anticipation of the reinstatement of the waiver, system changes were made to accommodate the correct coding of the Interview Method dropdown list of the EBC Results page. These changes will be available on the Interview Method dropdown list effective with the deployment of BEACON Increment 44.2 on Tuesday, April 19, 2011.

Since the waiver has not yet been officially reinstated, case mangers must not use the values of Interview Waived or Interview Scheduled/Cancelled on the Interview Method dropdown list until further notice.  However, case managers may use the values of Face-to-face Interview, Telephone Interview and Denial - No Interview.

Once the waiver is reinstated, an Operations Memo will be issued to provide guidelines for using the modified functionality.