State Assistance Programs for SSI Recipients, January 2009
Wisconsin
State Supplementation
Mandatory Minimum Supplementation
Administration: No recipients.
Optional State Supplementation
Administration: State Department of Health Services, Division of Disability and Elder Services, Health Care Access and Accountability.
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, including children, residing in the specified living arrangements. 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.
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: Recipients residing in the specified living arrangements are paid an established state supplement based on eligibility for a federal SSI benefit of at least $1.
Payment levels: See Table 1.
Living arrangement | Combined federal and state | State supplementation | ||
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Individual | Couple | Individual | Couple | |
Living independently | 757.78 | 1,143.05 | 83.78 | 132.05 |
Living in the household of another | 533.12 | 806.05 | 83.78 | 132.05 |
Living independently with an ineligible spouse | 804.43 | . . . | 130.43 | . . . |
Living in the household of another with an ineligible spouse | 584.39 | . . . | 135.05 | . . . |
Private nonmedical group home or natural residential setting | 853.77 | 1,488.41 | 179.77 | 477.41 |
SOURCES: Social Security Administration, Office of Income Security Programs; state information. | ||||
NOTES: A caretaker supplement is provided to SSI recipients with children: $250 for first child; $150 for each additional child. | ||||
. . . = not applicable. | ||||
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 | 108,596 | 9,327 | 977 | 71,462 | 26,830 |
Living independently | 71,523 | 6,159 | 495 | 42,004 | 22,865 |
Living in the household of another | 6,153 | 350 | 84 | 4,565 | 1,154 |
Living independently with an ineligible spouse | 6,708 | 915 | 54 | 5,736 | 3 |
Living in the household of another with an ineligible spouse | 87 | 19 | 0 | 68 | 0 |
Private nonmedical group home or natural residential setting | 24,125 | 1,884 | 344 | 19,089 | 2,808 |
SOURCE: State information. | |||||
a. Represents data from November 2008. |
Total expenditures: The state reported expenditures of $136,935,791 for calendar year 2008 in state-administered payments to SSI recipients.
State Assistance for Special Needs
Administration
State Department of Health Services, Division of Disability and Elder Services, Health Care Access and Accountability.
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).
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.