State Assistance Programs for SSI Recipients, January 2004
Vermont
State Supplementation
Mandatory Minimum Supplementation
No recipients.
Optional State Supplementation
Administration: Social Security Administration.
Effective date: January 1, 1974.
Statutory basis for payment: Vermont Statutes Annotated, title 33, chapter 13, Aid to Aged, Blind, and Disabled.
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 all SSI-eligible aged, blind, and disabled individuals, including children.
Resource limitations: Federal SSI regulations apply.
Income exclusions: Federal SSI regulations apply.
Recoveries, liens, and assignments: None.
Financial 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 independently | A and B | 616.04 | 944.88 | 52.04 | 98.88 |
Assistive community care, Level III | C | 612.38 | 942.77 | 48.38 | 96.77 |
Living in the household of another | E | 415.30 | 612.31 | 39.30 | 48.31 |
Residential care home, Level IV | G | 787.94 | 1,408.06 | 223.94 | 562.06 |
Custodial care family home | H | 662.69 | 1,178.82 | 98.69 | 332.82 |
Medicaid facility | I | 47.66 | 95.33 | 17.66 | 35.33 |
Living independently with an essential person a | . . . | 944.88 | 1,149.69 | 98.88 | 21.69 |
Living in the household of another with an ineligible spouse who is an essential person a | . . . | 616.04 | . . . | 52.04 | . . . |
NOTE: . . . = not applicable. | |||||
a. State administers payments. | |||||
DEFINITIONS:
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Number of recipients: See Table 2.
Living arrangement | State code |
Total | Aged | Blind | Disabled | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Adults | Children | |||||
All recipients | 12,890 | 1,070 | 140 | 9,570 | 2,110 | |
Living independently | A and B | 11,160 | 920 | 120 | 8,230 | 1,890 |
Assistive community care, Level III | C | 290 | 80 | 0 | 210 | 0 |
Living in the household of another | E | 160 | 10 | 0 | 120 | 30 |
Residential care home, Level IV | G | 190 | 30 | 0 | 150 | 10 |
Custodial care family home | H | 1,000 | 20 | 20 | 790 | 170 |
Medicaid facility | I | 90 | 10 | 0 | 70 | 10 |
Living independently with an essential person | . . . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Living in the household of another with an ineligible spouse who is an essential person | . . . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
NOTE: . . . = not applicable. |
State Assistance for Special Needs
Administration
Agency of Human Services, Department of Prevention, Assistance, Transition, and Health Access.
Special Needs Circumstances
Emergency assistance is provided, under certain conditions, for court-ordered evictions, natural disasters (e.g., fire, flood, or hurricane), emergency medical care, funeral costs, and emergency fuel 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.