Enter Negative Income

Negative income must be entered in MEDES when the participant’s self-employment income minus allowable expenses; including depreciation, equals a negative dollar amount.

MEDES will not allow negative income to be captured while entering a new application through the application flow. Once the new application is submitted; creating the Application Case, income evidence is updated to show as a negative amount, or loss, on the Application Case.

Income evidence; on an existing case, may be updated to show a negative amount due to new income being reported or yearly taxes being filed. This change happens on the Integrated Case.

NOTE: At this time MEDES does not allow negative income entered for one household member to affect the income of other household members. If the household has more than one wage earner; and one wage earner has negative income, you must do a manual calculation and use MO Override Eligibility Evidence to ensure correct coverage.

Example: Wage Earner 1 has negative income of 2000.00 per month. Wage Earner 2 has 2000.00 per month income. MEDES will show 2000.00 per month household income instead of 0.00. A manual calculation must be completed and thoroughly documented and MOEE used to correct coverage.

Related Evidence: Income

 

ENTERING NEGATIVE INCOME

NOTE: Before negative income can be captured in MEDES on the Application Case, you must first enter ‘Net Self-Employment Income Other Than Child Care’ evidence of 1.00 per month during the application flow.

After the Application Case Is Created

    1. From the Application Case > Evidence sub-tab> Dashboard folder
    2. Click the Income hyperlink
    3. Click the Toggle Toggle
    4. Click the List ActionList Action Menu menu
    5. Select Continue Editing
    6. In the Amount field, type in the negative income amount reported

NOTE: Negative income is captured by typing a subtraction “–” sign in front of the dollar amount

    1. Click Save Save Button button

Income amount should now show as negative. Continue processing the application case following directions in the Processing the Application Case subject section of MEDES Resources.

Integrated Case

    1. From the Integrated Case > Evidence sub-tab> Dashboard folder
    2. Click the Income hyperlink
    3. Click the Toggle Toggle
    4. Click the List ActionList Action Menu menu
    5. Select Edit
    6. In the Amount field, type in the negative income amount reported

NOTE: Negative income is captured by typing a subtraction “–” sign in front of the dollar amount

    1. Click Save Save Button button
    2. Verify all Outstanding Evidence
    3. Apply Changes, Check Proposed Determination, Finalize Proposed Determination

NOTE: MEDES may generate an additional proposed determination, especially in cases with income changes, adding a person, or removing a person. If the system generates an additional proposed determination, you must run the Finalize Proposed Determination again.

    1. Enter Income Verification Comments in either the HoH Person Page > Client Contact sub-tab > Notes folder or on the Income Evidence. The Income Evidence comment should state:
      1. Start and/or stop dates (if applicable)
      2. What was used to verify Income Evidence:
        1. Reasonable Compatibility
        2. Hard Copy
        3. Data Source
        4. If verification is from an employer list:
          1. the employers name
          2. frequency of pay
          3. rate of pay
          4. when the income started
      3. Include how the Amount field was calculated:
        1. was the amount manually calculated
        2. participant’s self-attestation
      4. If Reasonable Compatibility was used to verify the participant’s self-attestation of income
        1. state why used
        2. percentage difference in the participant’s self-attestation of income and EOIs
        3. state a copy of the calculator is filed in the ECM/VFR
    2. Review Notice Queue to make sure appropriate forms generated which may include:
      1. IM-80PRE: Generates in the event of coverage changes
      2. IM-80: Generates in the event of coverage changes
      3. IM-33C: Case Action Notice