Blog Tag: SSI Benefits

Social Security To Remove Food As In-Kind Support & Maintenance

The Social Security Administration said that starting this fall it will no longer factor food when determining what’s known as “in-kind support and maintenance.”...

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• April 10, 2024

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Social Security Announces Four Key Overpayment Improvements

During Senate hearings this week, SSA Commissioner O’Malley announced four vital steps to immediately address overpayment issues.  The press release from SSA reads as...

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• March 21, 2024

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Social Security To Fix ‘Cruel-Hearted’ Overpayment Clawbacks?

In an interview with KFF Health News, the Social Security Administration’s new chief Martin O’Malley is promising to overhaul the agency’s system of clawing...

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• March 20, 2024

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It’s National Disability Employment Awareness Month

During October we observe National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM) and this year’s theme is “Advancing Access and Equity:  Then, Now and Next”.  As...

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• October 24, 2023

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SSI Benefits Set To Increase

Social Security and Supplemental Security Income benefits will see their monthly payments rise next year due to an automatic cost-of-living adjustment, known as COLA....

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• October 13, 2023

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Don’t Spend Down To Save Benefits

We see the spend-down strategy happen again and again.  As end of month approaches, providers inevitably find consumers with funds over their resource limit...

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• June 8, 2023

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Use An Exempt Resource To Save Consumer Funds & Staff Time

We know the importance you place on choosing services that best support your consumers and community.  Over one hundred human service providers nationwide have...

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• March 31, 2023

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Supplemental Security Income Recipients Likely To See Largest Increase In Decades

For 2023, the cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA will bring a predicted increase for Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits, which are expected...

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• September 20, 2022

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Improving Application Processes For Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Benefits

Online access to the current Supplemental Security Income (SSI) application, form #SSA 8000, with its 60 questions across 29-pages has never been available online....

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• July 20, 2022

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Save Stimulus Money

There are two questions I/DD providers need to be asking right now about this topic: 1) Do our consumers have stimulus money?  2) What...

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• April 5, 2022

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