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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, 1999. The programs are OPTIONAL state supplementation of Federal SSI payments, State assistance for special needs, and Medicaid. The characteristics selected are those, about which the Social Security Administration (SSA) receives questions most often from individuals, public and private organizations, Federal, and State agencies.

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

In addition, four appendices are included in this report. Appendices A and B contain tables which present information by State on the:

• Administration of mandatory and optional supplementation;
• Method of passalong;
• Participation in the Interim Assistance Reimbursement Program;
• Medicaid eligibility criteria and determination;
• Medically 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 people receiving State optional supplementation in each State by living arrangement and eligibility category. Appendix D provides definitions of the State living arrangements presented.

This report was prepared in the Office of Research, Evaluation and Statistics, Division of SSI Statistics and Analysis, by Sherry L. Barber, program analyst, who also collected and compiled the data.

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 by State
• Selected features of medical programs affecting SSI recipients and the needy by State

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)