Administration: Social Security Administration.
Administration: Social Security Administration.
Effective date: January 1, 1974.
Statutory basis for payment: New Jersey Statutes Annotated, 44:7-86.
Administration: State funds.
Assistance: State funds.
Passalong method: Maintaining payment levels.
Place of application: Social Security Administration field offices.
Scope of coverage: Optional state supplement provided to all aged, blind, and disabled recipients, including children, except those in publicly operated community residences or facilities where Medicaid pays less than 50 percent of the cost of care. Supplementation provided to recipients in approved residential facilities.
Resource limitations: Federal SSI regulations apply.
Income exclusions: Federal SSI regulations apply.
Recoveries, liens, and assignments: None.
Financial responsibility of relatives: None.
Interim assistance: State participates.
Payment calculation method: Not provided by state.
Payment levels: See Table 1.
Living arrangement | State code | Combined federal and state | State supplementation | ||
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Individual | Couple | Individual | Couple | ||
Congregate care facility a | A | 773.05 | 1,527.36 | 150.05 | 593.36 |
Living alone or with others | B | 654.25 | 959.36 | 31.25 | 25.36 |
Living alone with an ineligible spouse | C | 959.36 | . . . | 336.36 | . . . |
Living with an essential person | C | 959.36 | . . . | 24.36 | . . . |
Living in the household of another | D | 459.65 | 715.76 | 44.31 | 93.09 |
Medicaid facility | G | 40.00 | 80.00 | 10.00 | 20.00 |
Residential health care facility b | I | 833.05 | 1,647.36 | 210.05 | 713.36 |
SOURCE: Social Security Administration, Office of Income Security Programs. | |||||
NOTE: . . . = not applicable. | |||||
a. State supplement includes a $92.50 personal needs allowance per person residing in a boarding home. | |||||
b. State supplement includes $102.50 personal needs allowance per person residing in a residential health care facility. | |||||
DEFINITIONS:
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Number of recipients: See Table 2.
Living arrangement | State code | Total | Aged | Blind | Disabled | |
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Adults | Children | |||||
All recipients | 151,725 | 33,115 | 830 | 87,387 | 30,393 | |
Congregate care facility | A | 4,771 | 463 | 30 | 3,752 | 526 |
Living alone or with others | B | 116,374 | 21,572 | 621 | 67,592 | 26,589 |
Living alone with an ineligible spouse or essential person | C | 5,528 | 2,640 | 31 | 2,852 | 5 |
Living in the household of another | D | 19,595 | 7,522 | 130 | 9,226 | 2,717 |
Medicaid facility | G | 3,999 | 826 | 16 | 2,608 | 549 |
Residential health care facility | I | 1,458 | 92 | 2 | 1,357 | 7 |
SOURCE: Social Security Administration, Supplemental Security Record, 100 percent data. |
State Department of Human Services, Division of Family Development.
Emergency assistance for catastrophic events and burial and funeral payments. Eligibility for payments based on meeting requirements for mandatory minimum or optional state supplementary payments.
Criteria: SSI program guidelines (Title XVI).
Determined by: Social Security Administration.
State provides a program for the aged, blind, and disabled medically needy.
The Social Security Administration obtains this information.