Homestead Verification Form

      Individuals and married couples are limited to one homestead standard deduction.  Property owners in Dubois County will receive an additional form with their property tax bills this year if they are currently receiving the Homestead Deduction.  This pink form, the Homestead Verification Form, is to verify that only one homestead deduction is filed, and will be mailed out with 2010, 2011, and 2012 tax bills. It is required to be filled out at least once by  January 1, 2013 for the Homestead Deduction to be verified. 

     Individuals or married couples claiming the deduction must complete this form to verify eligibility and to provide identification numbers (the last five digits of both the driver’s license and social security numbers), which will be used to populate a secure homestead database and prevent homestead fraud. The form is not required to be returned in person, but must be returned to the Dubois County Auditor for the Homestead Deduction to be verified.  More information on the form can be obtained from the DLGF Website.  A sample Homestead Verification Form can be viewed here.

Immunizations - Health Dept.

    The Dubois County Health Department will make vaccine available to everyone, regardless of their income or insurance coverage.  
     Effective January 1, 2012, the Dubois County Health Department will provide vaccine as follows:
     Children who have any form of Medicaid, who have no health insurance (uninsured) or are underinsured will continue to receive vaccines at the Health Department under the VFC program as they have in the past. Children will be considered underinsured only if their private insurance policy:
•    does not include any vaccine coverage or
•    specific vaccines are not covered under the policy or
•    they have a yearly dollar cap in vaccine coverage and that cap has been exceeded
     All children who have private health insurance will be considered fully insured even if their policy:
•    requires a high deductible be met first or
•    has a co-pay required or
•    provides percentage based coverage (such as 80/20, 70/30 etc).
Private stock vaccine will be used for these patients.  The insurance/Medicaid/Medicare eligibility status of the patient will be checked at the time of service.  All insurance cards must be provided at the time of service.  If a patient is considered fully insured and the insurance company is not contracted with VaxCare, the patient will pay the costs for the vaccine prior to the service.  
     Families who have private insurance must become well acquainted with the terms and provisions of the child’s insurance program, especially in regards to vaccination coverage.  
     We will not refuse patients based on their county of residence.
     For the convenience of the patients and our staff, we highly recommend that appointments be made by calling 812-481-7056.  We appreciate your patience during this time of transition.
     The recent trend of delaying or skipping vaccines has put children across the country at risk for diseases like whooping cough and measles.   It is important for children to be immunized on time, every time.    Because diseases still exist in this county and can be imported from foreign countries, unimmunized people are at great risk of getting sick.  Children are most vulnerable to diseases until they complete their primary series of immunizations.  Therefore, children begin to receive vaccines at the earliest opportunity so that they will not become ill, or worse, die from vaccine-preventable diseases.
     It is the goal of the Dubois County Health Department to protect all children from vaccine preventable diseases by creating awareness of the critical need for timely immunizations and by providing convenient access to immunization services.