State Assistance Programs for SSI Recipients, January 2002
Wisconsin
State Supplementation
Mandatory Minimum Supplementation
Administration: Department of Health and Family Services.
Optional State Supplementation
Administration: Department of Health and Family Services.
Effective date: January 1, 1974.
Statutory basis for payment: Wisconsin Statutes 49.77 and 49.775.
Funding
Administration: State funds.
Assistance: State funds.
Passalong method: Maintaining total expenditures.
Place of application: Social Security Administration field offices.
Scope of coverage: Optional state supplement provided to all eligible persons residing in the specified living arrangements (see Table 1). Residents of emergency shelters or patients in medical facilities where Medicaid pays more than 50 percent of the cost of care are not eligible for supplementation. Blind and disabled children are eligible for optional supplementation.
Resource limitations: Same as federal.
Income exclusions: Same as federal.
Recoveries, liens, and assignments: None.
Responsibility of relatives: None.
Interim assistance: State participates.
Payment levels: See Table 1.
Living arrangement | Combined federal and state | State supplementation | ||
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Individual | Couple | Individual | Couple | |
Living independently a | 628.78 | 949.05 | 83.78 | 132.05 |
Living in the household of another | 447.12 | 676.72 | 83.78 | 132.05 |
Living independently with an ineligible spouse | 675.43 | . . . | 130.43 | . . . |
Living in the household of another with an ineligible spouse | 498.39 | . . . | 135.05 | . . . |
Living in a private nonmedical group home or natural residential setting | 724.77 | 1,294.41 | 179.77 | 477.41 |
NOTES: A caretaker supplement is provided for children: $250 for first child; $150 for each additional child.
. . . = not applicable.
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a. Includes individuals in private medical facilities who receive less than 50 percent of cost of care from Medicaid. | ||||
DEFINITIONS:
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Number of recipients: See Table 2.
Living arrangement | Total | Aged | Blind | Disabled | |
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Adults | Children | ||||
All recipients | 90,299 a | 11,418 | 847 | 59,058 | 18,850 |
Living independently | 61,842 | 8,188 | 442 | 36,619 | 16,593 |
Living in the household of another | 3,846 | 361 | 64 | 2,798 | 623 |
Living independently with an ineligible spouse | 5,102 | 635 | 62 | 4,401 | 4 |
Living in the household of another with an ineligible spouse | 65 | 12 | 0 | 53 | 0 |
Living in a private nonmedical group home or natural residential setting | 19,318 | 2,222 | 279 | 15,187 | 1,630 |
a. Includes 126 blind children. |
State Assistance for Special Needs
Administration
Department of Health and Family Services, Division of Support Living.
Special Needs Circumstances
State administers special needs supplementary payments to cover care in nonmedical facilities and natural residential settings. Recipients with dependent children are eligible for a higher level of supplementation.
Medicaid
Eligibility
Criteria: SSI program guidelines (Title XVI), Wisconsin Statute 49.77.
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.