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VA Supplemental Security Income - SSI

Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is a Federal benefit program for people with disabilities who have limited income and resources. See the Federal Supplemental Security Income topic for complete details.

SSI State Supplement

Virginia provides an SSI State Supplement (called an Auxiliary Grant) only for recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and certain other aged, blind, or disabled individuals residing in a licensed assisted living facility or an approved adult foster care home. For details see VA Auxiliary Grants.

SSI and Medicaid

SSI cash benefits are not counted as unearned income when determining eligibility for Medicaid. (Note, however, that Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) is counted as unearned income.)

In Virginia, SSI recipients are not automatically eligible for Medicaid. Virginia has resource eligibility limits that are more restrictive than the Federal limits. They are more restrictive primarily in the way in which they define the ownership of land that is contiguous with the lot that a recipient's house is on. See Medicaid Resources Defined for details.

1619(b): If Virginia SSI recipients have earnings that cause their SSI cash benefit to go to zero, then their Medicaid coverage continues as long as:

·             They had Medicaid coverage in the month before their cash benefit stopped; and

·             They show that they need Medicaid in order to work; and

·             Their disability continues; and

·             Their earnings do not exceed the Virginia State Threshold or their Individualized Threshold.

See the SSI Work Incentive - 1619b topic for information about 1619(b), the Medicaid need test, and thresholds.

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