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 Farmworkers' Factsheet

 Protect Your Kids Now!

  • Your children probably qualify for free or low cost health insurance from the Children's Health Insurance Program (called CHIP) or from Medicaid. Changes in the law have made more children eligible for free or low cost insurance from states than ever before!
  • This insurance is available in all states (eligibility and benefits do vary from state to state).
  • You do not have to be on Welfare to get this insurance. You do not have to lose your job or be a single parent to get this insurance.
  • You can probably make a lot more money than you think you can and still be eligible to get this insurance for your children.
  • If you are a legal resident, getting this insurance will not count as Public Charge (something that can hurt your chance of becoming a U.S. citizen).
  • This insurance will let you make sure that your children up to age 18 can get checkups, immunuzations, prescriptions and dental care. They will be covered for visits to the doctor or if they have to go into the hospital.
  • If you have never applied for this insurance -- or even if you applied and couldn't get it in the past -- your children may be eligible NOW. It is worth the time to find out or to try again.

To talk to the children's health insurance people in your state to find out how to enroll you can call this toll free number from anywhere in the U.S. 1-877-KIDS-NOW (1-877-543-7669). It will be answered in the state from which you are calling.

If you have trouble getting the answers you need through the KIDS NOW line, you can call Call For Health at 1-800-377-9968 for bilingual assistance, Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Central Standard Time.

This is a NCFH project with support from US Department of Health and Human Services (HRSA) Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB).

 

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