Ambitious new initiative leverages consent-based platform from SteadyIQ to help state agencies streamline income verification after successful pilot program
, /PRNewswire/ — The Missouri Department of Social Services (DSS) today announced an ambitious new initiative designed to streamline the often time-consuming process of income verification, a critical step in enabling access to safety net benefits like Medicaid, SNAP, and TANF. Today’s announcement builds on the success of a pilot program, concluded late 2023, which utilized consumer friendly ‘consent-based’ verification to generate a more accurate and comprehensive understanding of an individual’s total earnings.
“Income verification is a mission critical step in the process of determining benefits eligibility. But for the growing number of workers who earn income from multiple sources, the process can be unnecessarily cumbersome and paperwork intensive,” said Melissa D. Wolf, Deputy Director of the Family Support Division at the State of Missouri’sDepartment of Social Services. “This is about modernizing the process using …