State Assistance Programs for SSI Recipients, January 2009
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 Workforce 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 regulations apply.
Income exclusions: Federal SSI regulations apply.
Recoveries, liens, and assignments: None.
Financial responsibility of relatives: None.
Interim assistance: State participates.
Payment calculation method: A standard applies that is established by the state for the total SSI payment.
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 | 674.00 | 1,015.60 | . . . | 4.60 |
Living in the household of another | B | 452.47 | 683.73 | 3.13 | 9.73 |
SOURCE: Social Security Administration, Office of Income Security Programs. | |||||
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 | 2,120 | 472 | 16 | 1,338 | 294 | |
Living alone or with others | A | 780 | 297 | 8 | 475 | 0 |
Living in the household of another | B | 1,340 | 175 | 8 | 863 | 294 |
SOURCE: Social Security Administration, Supplemental Security Record, 100 percent data. |
Total expenditures: The Social Security Administration reported expenditures of $63,000 for calendar year 2008 in federally 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: 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.