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SSI Ineligibility - SSA Benefits Paid from Parent's Account - Iowa

Medicaid is available to people who are at least 18 who meet all of the following conditions:

·           They received SSI or State Supplemental Assistance after their eighteenth birthday because of a disability or blindness that began before age 22; and

·           They were canceled from SSI or State Supplemental Assistance effective July 1, 1987, or later because they became entitled to social security benefits from a parent’s account, or they receive an increase in those benefits; and

·           They would continue to be eligible for SSI or State Supplemental Assistance if not for the social security benefits or increased benefits from the parent’s account.

Social security benefits from a parent’s account are available for disabled adult children whose disability began before the age of 22, including people who are blind

When the parent begins receiving social security benefits (upon retirement or disability), the adult child may also become eligible for benefits based on the parent’s account. Survivor’s benefits are available for the disabled adult child also. It is possible for the adult child to draw benefits from the parent’s account as well as drawing benefits on the adult child’s own social security account.

Example:

Mr. P, a 28-year old resident of an ICF-MR, was receiving SSI because of a disability that began before he turned 22. He had no income. His father started to draw social security retirement benefits. Mr. P began receiving $600 a month social security benefits from his father’s social security account and he lost SSI.

Mr. P continues to be eligible for Medicaid under the coverage group for persons ineligible for SSI or State Supplemental Assistance due to social security benefits paid from a parent’s account.

See Also:

·           Overview of Medical Assistance in Iowa

·           Welcome and Introduction to Benefits in Iowa

Source: Iowa Dept of Human Services Employees’ Manual

Title 8 Medicaid

·                        Chapter F, Coverage Groups, SSI-Related Coverage Groups, People Ineligible for SSI (or SSA)

Legal reference: Public Law 99-643, 441 IAC 75.1(25)

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