State Assistance Programs for SSI Recipients, January 2009
South Dakota
State Supplementation
Mandatory Minimum Supplementation
Administration: Social Security Administration.
Optional State Supplementation
Administration: State Department of Social Services. State-administered in local offices for assisted living and foster care home arrangements; state-administered in state offices for independent arrangements.
Effective date: February 1, 1975.
Statutory basis for payment: South Dakota Codified Laws Annotated 28-5A-1.
Funding
Administration: State funds.
Assistance: State funds.
Passalong method: Maintaining payment levels.
Place of application: Local offices of the state Department of Social Services for individuals in assisted living facilities or in adult foster care homes. State uses information from the Social Security Administration to identify recipients who are living independently and have no other income.
Scope of coverage: Optional state supplement provided to all SSI recipients who live independently and have no other source of income and to those who live in assisted living facilities or in adult foster care homes and whose net income is below the supplementation levels. Blind and disabled children who meet the income and resource limitations and live in assisted living facilities or adult foster care homes are eligible for optional supplementation.
Resource limitations: Federal SSI regulations apply.
Income exclusions: State excludes $60 of the federal SSI payment to recipients in assisted living facilities or foster care homes.
Recoveries, liens, and assignments: None.
Financial responsibility of relatives: None.
Interim assistance: State does not participate.
Payment calculation method: For recipients living independently, the state supplementation is added to the federal payment. For recipients residing in assisted living and adult foster care homes, a standard applies that is established by the state for the total SSI payment. The federal SSI payment and any countable income are deducted from the state standard. The remainder is the state supplementation.
Payment levels: See Table 1.
| Living arrangement | Combined federal and state | State supplementation | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Individual | Couple | Individual | Couple | |
| Living independently a | 689.00 | 1,026.00 | 15.00 | 15.00 |
| Assisted living facility | 1,379.00 | b | 765.00 | b |
| Adult foster care home | 1,002.00 | b | 388.00 | b |
| SOURCES: Social Security Administration, Office of Income Security Programs; state information. | ||||
| a. Limited to SSI recipients with no other source of income. | ||||
| b. Couples residing in these living arrangements are treated as two individuals starting with the month after leaving an independent living arrangement. | ||||
DEFINITIONS:
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Number of recipients: See Table 2.
| Living arrangement | Total | Aged | Blind | Disabled |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All recipients | 3,819 | -- | -- | -- |
| Living independently | 3,721 | -- | -- | -- |
| Assisted living facility | 88 | -- | -- | -- |
| Adult foster care home | 10 | -- | -- | -- |
| SOURCE: State information. | ||||
| NOTE: -- = not available. | ||||
Total expenditures: The state reported expenditures of $1,435,632 for calendar year 2008 in state-administered payments to SSI recipients.
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 does not provide a program for the medically needy.
Unpaid Medical Expenses
The Social Security Administration obtains this information.