referencesource/ssi-state-supplement-amounts-by-state

SSI state supplement amounts by state and living arrangement

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The federal SSI payment (the Federal Benefit Rate) is one number nationwide, but most states add a State Supplementary Payment on top of it, and that add-on varies by state and by the recipient's living arrangement (independent living, living in the household of another, domiciliary/personal-care home, nursing home, etc.) in a way no single federal page states. SSA administers the federal payment and publishes the FBR; the supplement is set and published separately by each state's own social-services agency, in its own document, on its own schedule, under its own category names. A record here is one state's one living-arrangement category with the FBR, the state supplement amount, and the date the amount took effect. Answers 'how much is the SSI state supplement in Pennsylvania for someone in a personal care boarding home', 'does Michigan add anything to the federal SSI check for domiciliary care and how much', and 'why is my total SSI payment higher than the federal maximum'. Living-arrangement categories differ in name and count from state to state — record the category exactly as the state's own document names it rather than mapping it onto a shared taxonomy, since the mapping itself is where two states' 'domiciliary care' can mean different things.

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Facts are numbers set by federal and state public-benefits agencies and published in their own administrative documents (SSA cost-of-living notices, state DHS/DSS policy manuals and grant-amount letters), works of government bodies with no reuse restriction on the figures themselves. Each record quotes the amount in the state's own words and links back to the issuing document.

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Sources

• http://services.dpw.state.pa.us/oimpolicymanuals/supp/720_State_Supplementary_Payment/720_Appendix_B.htm
• https://hhs.iowa.gov/media/3987/download
• https://mdhhs-pres-prod.michigan.gov/olmweb/ex/RF/Public/RFT/248.pdf

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