37.1 Disclosure Without Consent

DHS and its contractees may disclose information from the agency record to other programs routinely and without the person's consent for a purpose compatible with the data's collection.

Income Maintenance (IM) agencies may disclose information from that record to the following compatible agencies:

County child support agencies.
County departments of social or human services.
DHS-contracted county, tribal, and private W-2 agencies.
Weatherization agencies under contract with the Wisconsin Department of Administration (DOA) providing weatherization services to low income persons.
Tribal agencies administering DHS programs.
General relief/assistance agencies.
State of Wisconsin DCF staff for administering W-2.
FSET agencies administering the FoodShare Employment and Training program.
Any fiscal agent of the state administering benefit payments under the BadgerCare Plus program (currently Gainwell Technologies).
The Social Security Administration for administering the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits.
Local public housing authorities where the member applies for public housing or for federal rent assistance.
DWD, Division of Unemployment Insurance (DUI) for computer matching to Unemployment Insurance Benefit payments.
Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) agencies to the extent that the information is necessary to determine JTPA program eligibility.
Any other federally assisted program providing cash or in-kind assistance or services directly to persons on the basis of need. Federally-assisted school food service programs are included in this category. Families may apply for free or reduced meals in that program. Do not provide a school or school district with a list of students receiving FoodShare. However, if the school requests you to confirm the recipient status of a child or a list of children who have applied for free or reduced meals, provide the confirmation.
US Comptroller General's Office.
Any official conducting an investigation, prosecution, or civil proceeding in connection with the administration of an Income Maintenance program. They must submit to the agency a written request to obtain information. The request must include the identity of the person requesting the information, their authority to request, the violation being investigated, and identify the person being investigated. Do not apply this restriction to the agency’s District Attorney or fraud investigator.
Persons directly connected with the administration or enforcement of the programs that are required to participate in the state income and eligibility verification system (IEVS), to the extent that the information is used to establish or verify eligibility or benefit amounts under those programs.
Staff of any public or private agency for the administration of the:
1. Federal Title IV-E Foster Care program.
2. Adoption Assistance program.

No other routine disclosure from client records is approved. The applicant, member, or their legal guardian, conservator, or power of attorney must authorize all other disclosures. See Chapter 34 Legal Guardians, Conservators, Power of Attorney, and Other Representatives for more information on the entities that can act on behalf of an applicant or member.

This page last updated in Release Number: 23-02
Release Date: 04/17/2023
Effective Date: 04/17/2023

The information concerning the BadgerCare Plus program provided in this handbook release is published in accordance with: Titles XI, XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act; Parts 430 through 481 of Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations; Chapter 49 of the Wisconsin Statutes; and Chapters HA 3, DHS 2 and 101 through 109 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code.

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