State Assistance Programs for SSI Recipients, January 2011
Rhode Island
The state did not respond to our request for 2011 data. The text reflects the last update provided by the state. Total expenditures and tables 1 and 2 reflect 2011 federal reporting and 2010 state data.
State Supplementation
Mandatory Minimum Supplementation
No recipients.
Optional State Supplementation
Administration: Social Security Administration; State Department of Human Services.
Effective date: January 1, 1974.
Statutory basis for payment: General Laws of Rhode Island, 1956, as amended, title 40, chapter 6, section 27.
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 recipients, including children, residing in the specified living arrangements.
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: Not provided by state.
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 | A | 713.92 | 1,090.38 | 39.92 | 79.38 |
Living in the household of another | B | 501.26 | 771.30 | 51.92 | 97.30 |
Adult residential care or assisted living facility | D | 1,212.00 | . . . | 538.00 | . . . |
Medicaid facility | E | 50.00 | 100.00 | 20.00 | 40.00 |
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 | 31,086 | 3,503 | 150 | 21,097 | 6,336 | |
Living alone | A | 29,104 | 2,992 | 139 | 19,897 | 6,076 |
Living in the household of another | B | 1,075 | 175 | 9 | 692 | 199 |
Adult residential care or assisted living facility | D | 563 | 291 | 2 | 269 | 1 |
Medicaid facility | E | 344 | 45 | 0 | 239 | 60 |
SOURCE: Social Security Administration, Supplemental Security Record, 100 percent data. | ||||||
a. State changed administration of optional program from federal to state in 2011. Data not available from the state for 2011. Data shown are from 2010. |
Total expenditures: The state reported expenditures of $18,115,000 for calendar year 2010 in state-administered payments to SSI recipients.
State Assistance for Special Needs
Administration
State Department of Human Services.
Special Needs Circumstances
Moving expenses: Within cost guidelines, moving costs are covered for SSI recipients when the move is determined to be socially desirable and moving services cannot be provided by city, town, or other community resources.
Catastrophic conditions: In the event of a catastrophe by fire, flood, lightning, or severe wind, the state will provide shelter, clothing, food, and essential household equipment and furnishings.
Burial expenses: The cost of burial expenses can be provided for any person who dies leaving insufficient resources to meet this expense.
Homemaker services: Services provided under specified criteria to prevent institutionalization of a recipient who is unable to perform homemaker duties because of an acute or chronic illness.
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 obtains this information.