sliding scale eligibility information
Eligibility For This Program Is Based On Financial Need
Why does Iliuliuk Family and Health Services need to know your household income?
Some of our program budget comes from grant money. For most of these grants, income information from all of our patients is necessary to prove financial need in the communities we serve. The grant monies allow us to provide a higher level of quality and more services than we could without them. In order to get and keep these grants, we need to provide income information to prove that we are serving the people the grant money has been set aside for.
ALL INFORMATION IS CONFIDENTIAL
Definition of Household:
All members of a household who are related and pooling financial resources are counted as one family if the arrangements are considered permanent and support greater than room and board is provided.
Unrelated members of a household who are supporting one another financially are considered one family.
Definition of Income:
Income is defined as total cash before taxes from all sources, which can include:
All applicants are asked to provide proof of household income and family size to qualify for discounted fees. There is a 30 day grace period from the date of your visit to the time the application needs to be returned. If the application is not returned within 30 days you will be responsible for 100% of charges. If the application is returned within 30 days and the patient qualifies on the scale, adjustments will be made starting with the date the application was first provided to the patient. Information will be updated at least once every year, or any time your income, household size and/or medical insurance status changes. It is your responsibility to keep an up to date sliding scale application with IFHS.
All members of a household who are related and pooling financial resources are counted as one family if the arrangements are considered permanent and support greater than room and board is provided.
Unrelated members of a household who are supporting one another financially are considered one family.
Definition of Income:
Income is defined as total cash before taxes from all sources, which can include:
- Wages and salaries;
- Receipts from self-employment after deductions for normal operating expenses;
- Regular payments through public assistance, social security, longevity, unemployment, strike benefits, military allotments, disability, rental income, regular support from an absent family member or someone not living in the household (includes child support), government or private pensions, and regular insurance or annuity payments;
- Income from dividends (including permanent fund), interest, rents royalties, or income from estates or trusts;
- Savings accounts (average balance of past 6 months activity, divided by 6 months’ equal monthly portion of income),
All applicants are asked to provide proof of household income and family size to qualify for discounted fees. There is a 30 day grace period from the date of your visit to the time the application needs to be returned. If the application is not returned within 30 days you will be responsible for 100% of charges. If the application is returned within 30 days and the patient qualifies on the scale, adjustments will be made starting with the date the application was first provided to the patient. Information will be updated at least once every year, or any time your income, household size and/or medical insurance status changes. It is your responsibility to keep an up to date sliding scale application with IFHS.
