MaineCare application asks personal questions, such as where a child was conceived

◼ DHHS says questions on the form have a purpose and are not meant to intrude, but others object. - Joe Lawlor/Portland Press-Herald

Single parents applying online for MaineCare coverage are being asked personal questions – such as whether their child was conceived in Maine and why the absent parent no longer lives in the home – as part of the application.

From a scroll-down menu of possible reasons that the other parent left home, the Maine- Care applicant can choose “unwed parenthood, divorce, abandonment, death, separation, incarceration” and others.

...“We’re just trying to do a job and collect the information that needs to be collected...”