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Repayment of Conditional Benefits - Iowa

If you are the recipient of Conditional Benefits, amounts of State Supplementary Assistance conditional benefits paid to you are considered overpayments. You must repay the lessor amount of:

·        The State Supplementary Assistance benefits paid in the period of conditional eligibility, or

·        The revised resource amount that is over the resource limit that was in effect at the beginning of the period of conditional eligibility.

The revised value of countable resources is the net sale proceeds plus the value of other countable resources at the beginning of the conditional benefit period. Net proceeds are the gross amount from the sale minus the cost of sale and any legal debts on the resource that are paid by the seller.

When determining the amount to recover for a recipient receiving both Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and State Supplementary Assistance, the caseworker considers the repayment amount SSI is requesting before determining the amount to recover for State Supplementary Assistance.

If SSI is recovering the total amount of excess resources, the caseworker should not recover any State Supplementary Assistance. If the period of SSI conditional eligibility is over before the State Supplementary Assistance is approved, there is no State Supplementary Assistance overpayment.

The caseworker, when determining the amount of State Supplementary Assistance to recover:

1.   Determines the amount of State Supplementary Assistance benefits received during the conditional benefit period.

2.   Establishes the revised value of countable resources (net sale proceeds plus the value of other resources at beginning of conditional benefit period).

3.   Subtracts any conditional benefits SSI is recovering from the revised resource amount.

4.   Subtracts the resource limit from the remainder in step 3.

5.   Compares State Supplementary Assistance benefits received during the conditional period to the figure calculated in step 4.

If the amount of State Supplementary Assistance is less than the figure in step 4, the recipient is responsible for repaying the State Supplementary Assistance amount.

If the amount of State Supplementary Assistance is more than the figure in step 4, the recipient is responsible for repaying the amount in step 4.

See Also:

·           Conditional Benefits for SSI and State Supplementary Assistance

·           Eligibility Requirements for State Supplementary Assistance

·           Overview of State Supplementary Assistance

·           Overview of Benefits in Iowa

Source: DHS Employees’ Policy Manual

Title 6, Other Income Maintenance (IM) Programs

·     Chapter B, State Supplemental Assistance, Resources, Conditional Benefits, Repayment of State Supplementary Assistance and SSI, pages 14-16

Regulation citations: 441 IAC 50.2(1); 20 CFR 416.1244 and (d)

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