Public emergency shelters for the homeless, exclusion of underpayments, increase in benefit rate for individuals in medical care facilities--SSA. Interim rules with request for comments.
These interim rules reflect sections 9113, 9114, and 9119 of Public Law (Pub. L.) 100-203, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987, signed into law on December 22, 1987. They affect applicants for and recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments. These regulations increase the number of months an individual who resides in a public emergency shelter for the homeless may be eligible for SSI payments, extend the time period during which certain retroactive benefit payments made under the Federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) or SSI programs will be excluded from resources, and increase the SSI Federal benefit rate for individuals in certain medical institutions where Medicaid pays more than half the cost of their care. These interim rules also provide that States making an optional supplementary payment to residents in these medical institutions on or after October 1, 1987, and before July 1, 1988, are required to continue making such payments. Thus, the increase in the Federal payment for individuals in these medical institutions is passed along to the recipients.
D006703:Ill-Housed Persons; D008484:Medicaid / Q000191:economics*; D008489:Medical Indigency; D012112:Residential Facilities / Q000191:economics*; D012943:Social Security / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States