Medicaid Renewal Toolkit: Help People Experiencing Homelessness Keep Their Medicaid

“After a 3-year pause, Medicaid is back to requiring people to renew their coverage every year. Medicaid provides health care coverage to low-income households. From July 2023 to September 2024, it is estimated that at least 15 million current Medicaid members will lose coverage, including almost 7 million members who may still be eligible. These eligible members will lose coverage because of procedural errors, i.e., they did not renew on time or did not receive their renewal packet.
“People experiencing homelessness are more at risk of losing coverage, as Medicaid members receive their renewal packets at their last known mailing address. Most people experiencing homelessness may not have a mailing address or their mailing address has changed in the past three years. Without an updated mailing address, they may not realize they need to renew. They may not discover they lost their health coverage until they go to a medical appointment.”

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