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WHY IS MY LIVING ARRANGEMENT IMPORTANT?
Your living arrangement is another factor used to determine how much SSI you can get.
This means your SSI benefits may vary depending on where you live:
We may reduce your SSI benefits because of your living arrangements when you:
| live in another person's house, apartment, or mobile home, and you pay less than your fair share of your food or housing costs; |
| live in your own house, apartment, or mobile home, and someone else pays for all or part of your food, rent or mortgage, or other things like electricity and garbage removal; |
| are in a hospital or nursing home for the whole month and Medicaid pays for over one–half of the bill; |
| are a minor child and private insurance and Medicaid together pay over half your bill; or |
| are in an institution run by a Federal, State, or local government for the whole month and Medicaid is paying 50% or more of your expenses. In most government institutions, you cannot get any SSI benefits unless Medicaid is paying more than one–half of your bills. If you are in a medical treatment facility and Medicaid is paying 50% or more of your expenses, you may be eligible for $30 a month. |
You may also wish to see our regulations for "In–Kind Support and Maintenance," beginning with 20 CFR 416.1130 and continuing through 20 CFR 416.1149, which include rules about living arrangements.
Sections 2141–2145. and 2147 in Chapter 21 of the Social Security Handbook also cover the same subjects. |
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