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Time to Think About Insurance
The deadline to enrole for health insurance coverage through Your Health Idaho, is Monday, December 16th. However, you may be eligible to enrole in Medicaid for Adults (Medicaid Expansion) which opened on November 1st and takes effect on January 1, 2020. Services covered by Medicaid include: annual physicals, doctor visits, dental & vision care, immunizations, pregnancy & family planning services, mental health services, inpatient & outpatient hospital care, prescriptions, emergency medical transportation, and more. Medicaid for Adult is available to Idaho resiIncome Guidelines dents who are 19 to 64 years old, are not currently Household Gross Income (138%) receiving or eligible for other Medicaid coverage Size Monthly Yearly or Medicare, and have a household income from 1 $1,437 $17,244 0% to 138% of the Federal Poverty Level. 2 $1,944 $23,328 You can apply for Medicaid for Adults and oth 3 $2,454 $29,448 er health coverage assistance online using idalink. 4 $2,961 $35,532 Visit idalink.idaho.gov to register for an account 5 $3,469 $41,628 and submit an application. You can also apply in 6 $3,979 $47,748 your local Health & Welfare office, by mail, or 7 $4,486 $53,832 by calling 1-877-456-1233. Visit livebetteridaho. 8 $4,994 $59,928 org/expanded-medicaid for a printable application Each additional member is + $508 per mo. and more information. -- -- -- -- --
Proof of Insurance Needed at DMV
As of January 1, 2020, vehicle owners will need to provide proof of liability insurance for two consecutive months or risk having their registration suspended beginning in 2020. The law (Idaho Code Section 49-1234) was passed during the 2019 Idaho legislative session and goes into effect in January. It requires the Idaho Transportation Department’s Division of Motor Vehicles to determine monthly whether the owner of a vehicle has insurance. The law applies only to non-commercial vehicles, and excludes trailers and off-highway vehicles. If you want to maintain registration on a vehicle that is not in use, you will still need to have insurance on that vehiclt or provide an Affidavit of Non-Use of Registered Motor Vehicle (IDT Form 3119). A notification letter will be sent to affected vehicle owners to alert them of the law change. Owners without insurance coverage for two consecutive months will receive a warning and be given 30 days to provide proof of insurance or obtain an exemption before their registration is suspended. To reinstate a suspended registration, owners will need to provide proof of insurance and pay a fee of $75. Most vehicles will be varified with no effort on your part, however, if you have out-of-state insurance it may not show up on the insurance verification system. Other things that may not show up are indemnity bonds (Idaho Code 49-1229), self-insurance (Idaho Code 49-1224), business policies, general liability and/or broad form policies. For a full list of frequently asked questions, please visit itd.idaho.gov/driveidaho
News from the Heart of Idaho Camas • Lincoln • Gooding
December 11, 2019
Vol 43 Num 50
New Cemetery Board in Camas County
submitted by Clell Ballard Few people are aware that one of the smaller administrative districts in our county has to do with local cemeteries. For some time now we have not had an official board to oversee issues that concern them. Now we do. Three civic minded individuals have stepped up and are willing to make the decisions that affect us all whether we know it or not. They are Melody Leffler, Jerry Nelson and Jerry Young. In the early history of Camas County every small town developed its own cemetery. The MANARD community placed theirs up against the south hills. HILL CITY, once a thriving town on the western fringe of the Prairie, developed a cemetery just a short distance north and east. CORRAL cemetery is up on one of the foothills of Soldier Mountain. The SOLDIER/ FAIRFIELD cemetery is located five miles north of Fairfield. It has become the main place where most deceased residents are buried. That Mountain View Cemetery is a beautiful place overlooking the Prairie, however, a serious problem has arisen in the last year or so in that all the available burial plots there have been sold. A visit will reveal that there is much space without graves, but those plots have been sold ahead of time so they are available when needed. More burial space is needed. The previous Cemetery Board did considerable work in solving that problem and extra land was donated next to the cemetery for expansion. Unfortunately, preparing that area for use has not been easy. This last week, the unexpected death of one of our community members facilitated the need for some winter time road building. Fortunately, a group of volunteers were able to open up the area needed for this Saturday’s funeral. More work will be needed on the new section, but our new Cemetery Board will continue to strive towards solving the problem of inadequate space. We wish them well.