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SSI State Supplement - Kentucky

Kentucky provides State Supplements to Federal SSI benefit payments for residents in one of the living arrangements specified in the table below.

General Information

The Social Security Administration (SSA) provided the data shown in the table. Contact your local SSA Claims Representative for further details about eligibility and benefit levels. See the topic "Contacting the Social Security Administration" to find out how to get information or help from SSA.

Notes about specific items, if any, display as colored letters within brackets in the table. Their explanation directly follows the table. You may click on these colored letters within the table to jump immediately to the explanations. Use the Back button in the Help window to return to your place in the table. If additional information is available, it follows after any notes.

Unless otherwise stated, payment levels apply equally to people who are aged, people with blindness, and people with disabilities. Benefit amounts are usually adjusted annually, and become effective January 1st. The table shows monthly payment levels for calendar year 2010.

If you are using this version of WorkWORLD after January 1, 2011, you should be able to get the updated numbers from your local office of the Department of Community Based Services.

Definitions for specific Living Arrangement terms are provided below the table and notes. Click on the term to go to the definition.

Payment Levels

	State Supplementation		Combined Federal/State
Living Arrangement	Individual	Couple	Individual	Couple

Personal care facility [a] [b]	$520.00	---	$1,194.00	---

Family care home [b]	172.00	---	846.00	---

Caretaker in home	62.00	$115.00	736.00	$1,126.00

Notes

[a] Represents the maximum paid. Lesser amounts may be paid depending on need.

[b] Federal and state agencies consider couples residing in these living arrangements as individuals one month after leaving an independent living arrangement.

Living Arrangements Definitions

Living in a personal care facility -– Includes recipients who are ambulatory or mobile non-ambulatory and able to manage most of the activities of daily life. Facilities provide supervision, basic health and health related services, personal care, and social/recreational activities.

Living in a family care home - Includes recipients in residential accommodations limited to two or three people who are not related to the licensee. Residents of these homes must be ambulatory or mobile non-ambulatory and be able to manage most of the activities of daily life. They cannot have an illness, injury, or disability requiring constant medical care.

Caretaker in home - Includes recipients who are eligible to receive caretaker services in their homes. These services are provided at regular intervals to prevent institutionalization.

Additional Information

NOTE: See SSI State Supplement Guide to Terms for definitions of each of the below categories.

Scope of Coverage

Optional State supplement provided to every aged, blind, and disabled person who has a need for care in a personal care facility other than a Medicaid facility or in a family care home licensed under the health licensure act or for the services of a caretaker in the home and who has insufficient income to obtain this care. Children are eligible for optional supplementation for caretaker services in the home. The minimum age requirement for a personal care home is 16, and 18 for a family care home.

Recoveries, Liens, and Assignments

None.

Relative Responsibility

Caretaker services - spouse for spouse and parent for child under age 18 if living together, and relative responsibility for the month of admission in personal care home or family care home.

Income Disregards

No disregards in addition to the Federal income disregards.

Resource Limitations

Federal SSI resource limitations apply.

Place of Application

Local offices of State Cabinet for Families and Children, Department for Community Based Services.

Source

SSA Publication No. 13-11975 [latest edition available], State Assistance Programs for SSI Recipients, January 2010 (released December 2010) online at:
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/policy/docs/progdesc/ssi_st_asst/2010/index.html

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