Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 441 - Human Services Department › Title VI - General Public Assistance Provisions › Chapter 57 - Interim Assistance Reimbursement › Rule 441-57.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
"Benefits"
means Supplemental Security
				  Income (SSI) for the aged, blind, and disabled (a federal cash assistance
				  program under Title XVI of the Social Security Act) and any federally
				  administered state supplementary assistance payments that are determined by the
				  Social Security Administration to be due an individual at the time the SSI
				  payment is made.
"County agency "
means a county or county
				  subdivision under the jurisdiction of the county board of supervisors,
				  including a county commission of veteran affairs, that furnishes relief in the
				  form of cash or vendor payments to or in behalf of needy persons in accordance
				  with established standards under the provisions of Iowa Code chapter 35B or
				  252.
"Initial payment"
means the amount of
				  benefits determined by the Social Security Administration to be payable to an
				  eligible person (including any retroactive amounts) when the person is first
				  determined to be eligible for SSI. The initial payment does not include any
				  emergency advance payments, any presumptive disability or blindness payments,
				  or any immediate payments authorized under Section 1631 of the Social Security
				  Act.
"Initialposteligibility payment"
means the
				  amount of benefits determined by the Social Security Administration to be
				  payable to an eligible person (including any retroactive amounts) when the
				  person is first determined eligible for SSI following a period of suspension or
				  termination. The initial posteligibility payment does not include any emergency
				  advance payments, any presumptive disability or blindness payments, or any
				  immediate payments authorized under Section 1631 of the Social Security
				  Act.
"Interim assistance "
means assistance in
				  the form of cash or vendor payments for meeting basic needs furnished by a
				  county agency during the interim period. Basic needs include food, clothing,
				  shelter, medical care and services not covered by Medicaid, and other
				  essentials of daily living. Interim assistance does not include the county
				  payment of social services costs associated with services during the interim
				  period or medical care or services covered by Medicaid.
"Interim period"
means either (1) the period
				  beginning with the month following the month in which a person filed an
				  application for benefits for which the person was found to be eligible and
				  ending with and including the month the person's benefits began, or (2) the
				  period beginning the day the person's benefits were reinstated after a period
				  of suspension or termination, and ending with (and including) the month the
				  person's benefits were resumed. The interim period does not include any periods
				  during which the person is underpaid by the Social Security Administration due
				  to that agency's failure to make a timely modification of the person's SSI
				  benefit or for any other reason.