2-010.01B4a Accumulated SSI Payments

469 NAC 2-010.01B4a

When an applicant has been approved for retroactive SSI benefits, if the following are in place, the worker does not consider the SSI benefits when computing a retroactive state supplement payment:

 

1. There must be an AABD application date that corresponds with the time frame approved by SSI;

2. Verified disability begin date;

3. Form IM-17 completed and SDX shows state reimbursement;

4. The SSI check has been or will be received by Central Office;

5. The Central Office has not returned any of the retroactive SSI money to the client; and

6. There are no RSDI amounts included in the retroactive SSI payments.

 

If there are no RSDI benefits and SSA sends the SSI retroactive check directly to the applicant or Central Office has received the SSI check and has returned all or a portion to the client, the worker must use the SSI Federal Benefit Rate (FBR) in any grant budget month there is an SSI payment due.

 

If RSDI benefits were used in determining the amount of the SSI check, the portion that is RSDI must be used when computing state supplement payments.  (RSDI benefits by law must not be assigned to reimburse the state for state supplement expenditures.)

 

Example of calculating state supplement when RSDI is used to determine the retroactive benefit and the SSI benefit is going to the state:

RSDI $200 + SSI $403 = $603

AABD standard $368 + $234 shelter = $602

$602 - $180 RSDI ($20 disregard) = $422 state supplement payment amount

The worker only enters the RSDI amount and no FBR in the budget.

 

 

Note:  If the client is otherwise eligible at the time of approval and the worker is unable to verify the amount of SSI retroactive benefits, the worker must wait until the SSI amount is known to determine any retroactive state supplement benefits.

 

See 469 NAC 2-010.01B4 for exclusion as a resource.

 

If General Assistance or another source has paid shelter for the client, you must not use that shelter cost in the AABD budget.  If the client actually paid/owes shelter costs for any month you are budgeting, then the shelter cost should be allowed.

{2/28/2007}