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Contact Information

For questions pertaining to this report, please call Sherry Barber at 410-965-9851 or e-mail ssi.st.asst@ssa.gov. For additional copies, please call 202-358-6274 or e-mail op.publications@ssa.gov.

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Foreword

This report provides data on selected characteristics of State assistance programs for supplemental security income (SSI) recipients as of January 1, 1998. The programs are optional state supplementation of Federal SSI payments, state assistance for special needs, and Medicaid. The characteristics selected are those that the Social Security Administration (SSA) has most frequently received inquire about from individuals, public and private organizations and Federal and State agencies.

This report focuses on eligibility provisions and basic levels of assistance for individuals and couples who receive supplementary payments in each State and in the Distribut of Columbia. Data are also presented on Federal-State administrative responsibilities for making payments; State criteriafor special need payments; and on Medicaid eligibility.

Four appendices are included in this areport. Appendices A and B contain tables which present information by State on: the administration of mandatory and optional supplementation; the method of passalong; participation in the Interim Assistance Reimburesement Porigram; Medicaid eligibility criteria and determination; medical needy programs for aged, blind, and disabled; and whether the Social Security Administration obtains information on unpaid medical expenses. Appendix C provides data on the number of persons receiving State optional supplementation in each State by living arrangement and eligibility category. Appendix D contains definitions of State living arrangements.

The Office of Research, Evaluatin, and Statistics, Division of SSI Statistics and Analysis prepared this report. Sherry L. Barber, a program analyst of the division, collected and compiled all of the data for this report.

The Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, gratefully acknowledges the cooperation of the State agency personnel and the Social SEcurity Administration's central office policy analysts in providing this information.

Table of Contents

The following files are availabe for this document in the given formats:

• Selected features of State supplementation: administration, passalong, and participation in the Interim Assistance Reimbursement Program (IAR) by State, January 1998
• Selected features of medical programs affecting SSI recipients and the needy by State, January 1998

Other Editions of this Publication

Next Expected Update

December 2004

Other Editions

• State Assistance Programs for SSI Recipients, January 2002 (released August 2004)
• State Assistance Programs for SSI Recipients, January 2001 (released July 2001) ^*
• State Assistance Programs for SSI Recipients, January 2000 (released July 2000)
• State Assistance Programs for SSI Recipients, January 1999 (released July 1999)
• State Assistance Programs for SSI Recipients, January 1998 (released June 1998)