State Assistance Programs for SSI Recipients, January 2002
Montana
State Supplementation
Mandatory Minimum Supplementation
Administration: Social Security Administration.
Optional State Supplementation
Administration: Social Security Administration.
Effective date: July 1, 1974.
Statutory basis for payment: Montana Code Annotated 52-1-104.
Funding
Administration: State funds.
Assistance: State funds.
Passalong method: Maintaining payment levels.
Place of application: Developmental Disabilities and Adult Protective Services District Offices, Child and Family Services Division of the Department of Public Health and Human Services, and other designated contracting agencies.
Scope of coverage: Optional state supplement provided to persons residing in specified living arrangements (see Table 1). All disabled children, including the blind, who are eligible for SSI and reside in a certified foster home are eligible to receive the state supplement.
Resource limitations: Federal SSI resource limitations apply.
Income exclusions: Federal SSI income exclusions apply.
Recoveries, liens, and assignments: None.
Responsibility of relatives: None.
Interim assistance: State participates.
Payment levels: See Table 1.
Living arrangement | State code | Combined federal and state |
State supplementation | ||
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Individual | Couple | Individual | Couple | ||
Personal care facility | G | 639.00 | 1,010.00 | 94.00 | 193.00 |
Group home for the mentally ill or disabled | H | 639.00 | 1,010.00 | 94.00 | 193.00 |
Community home for the physically or developmentally disabled | I | 639.00 | 1,010.00 | 94.00 | 193.00 |
Child and adult foster care home | J | 597.75 | 927.50 | 52.75 | 110.50 |
Transitional living services for the developmentally disabled | K | 571.00 | 874.00 | 26.00 | 57.00 |
NOTES: All care facilities must be state certified. | |||||
Up to $100 may be retained per month as a personal needs allowance, depending on the facility. | |||||
DEFINITIONS:
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Number of recipients: See Table 2.
Living arrangement | State code | Total | Aged | Blind | Disabled | |
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Adults | Children | |||||
All recipients | 924 | 27 | 10 | 780 | 107 | |
Personal care facility | G | 65 | 18 | 1 | 46 | 0 |
Group home for the mentally ill or disabled | H | 42 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 10 |
Community home for the physically or developmentally disabled | I | 571 | 8 | 7 | 545 | 11 |
Child and adult foster care home | J | 195 | 1 | 1 | 107 | 86 |
Transitional living services for the developmentally disabled | K | 51 | 0 | 1 | 50 | 0 |
State Assistance for Special Needs
State does not provide assistance for special needs.
Medicaid
Eligibility
Criteria: SSI program guidelines (Title XVI).
Determined by: Social Security Administration.
Medically Needy Program
State provides a program for the aged, blind, and disabled medically needy.
Unpaid Medical Expenses
The Social Security Administration does not obtain this information.