State Assistance Programs for SSI Recipients, January 2002
Utah
State Supplementation
Mandatory Minimum Supplementation
No recipients.
Optional State Supplementation
Administration: Social Security Administration.
Effective date: July 1, 1978.
Statutory basis for payment: Appropriation Act for the Department of Social Services, 1978/1979.
Funding
Administration: State funds.
Assistance: State funds.
Passalong method: Maintaining payment levels.
Place of application: Social Security Administration field offices.
Scope of coverage: Optional state supplement provided to SSI recipients, including children, who are living alone or with others.
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 | ||
Living alone or with others | A | 545.00 | 821.60 | . . . | 4.60 |
Living in the household of another | B | 366.47 | 554.40 | 3.13 | 9.73 |
NOTE: . . . = not applicable. | |||||
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 | 1,540 | 350 | 10 | 990 | 190 | |
Living alone or with others | A | 690 | 270 | 0 | 420 | 0 |
Living in the household of another | B | 850 | 80 | 10 | 570 | 190 |
State Assistance for Special Needs
State does not provide assistance for special needs.
Medicaid
Eligibility
Criteria: SSI program guidelines (Title XVI).
Determined by: State.
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.