As I blogged about earlier this month, New Jersey lawmakers were considering imposing income verification requirements for Medicaid recipients. Both houses of the legislature have recently passed a bill mandating this and now that legislation awaits the governor's signature.

The legislation mandates that recipients submit income information like pay stubs and that the state must take steps to verify this information. This move towards income verification was undertaken in response to a report that there were people using the program who had incomes exceeding the state's eligibility limits.

I am a little surprised that income verification wasn't part of the process to sign up for Medicaid before this. It seems like common sense to make sure that people who are in the program are actually eligible for it. Better late than never for the taxpayers of New Jersey, I guess.