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<h3> REPORTING RESPONSIBILITIES </h3><br />
<h4 class="bluetitle"> WHAT THINGS MUST YOU REPORT TO SOCIAL SECURITY? </h4>
<p>You must report any of the changes listed below to us, because they may affect your eligibility for supplemental security income (SSI) and your benefit amount:</p>
<ul><p><img src="images/ball80.gif" width="20" height="10" border="0" alt="small blue and black arrow" />Change of address.</p>
<p><img src="images/ball80.gif" width="20" height="10" border="0" alt="small blue and black arrow" />Change in <a href="text-living-ussi.htm" onMouseOver="a('LIVING ARRANGEMENTS');return true" onMouseOut="b()">living arrangements</a>.</p>
<p><img src="images/ball80.gif" width="20" height="10" border="0" alt="small blue and black arrow">Change in earned and unearned <a href="text-income-ussi.htm" onMouseOver="a('SSI INCOME');return true" onMouseOut="b()">income</a>, including a change in wages or net earnings from self-employment, including your spouses income if you are married and living together, and parents income if applying for a child.</p>
<p><img src="images/ball80.gif" width="20" height="10" border="0" alt="small blue and black arrow">Change in <a href="text-resources-ussi.htm" onMouseOver="a('SSI RESOURCES');return true" onMouseOut="b()">resources</a> including your spouses resources, if you are married and living together, and parents resources if applying for a child.</p>
<p><img src="images/ball80.gif" width="20" height="10" border="0" alt="small blue and black arrow" />Death of spouse or anyone in your household.</p>
<p><img src="images/ball80.gif" width="20" height="10" border="0" alt="small blue and black arrow" />Change in marital status (including any same-sex relationships).</p>
<p><img src="images/ball80.gif" width="20" height="10" border="0" alt="small blue and black arrow" />Change in citizenship or immigration status.</p>
<p><img src="images/ball80.gif" width="20" height="10" border="0" alt="small blue and black arrow" />Change in help with living expenses from friends or relatives.</p>
<p><img src="images/ball80.gif" width="20" height="10" border="0" alt="small blue and black arrow" />Eligibility for other benefits or payments.</p>
<p><img src="images/ball80.gif" width="20" height="10" border="0" alt="small blue and black arrow" />Admission to or discharge from an institution (such as a hospital, nursing home, or a correctional institution such as prison, jail, detention center, boot camp, etc,).</p>
<p><img src="images/ball80.gif" width="20" height="10" border="0" alt="small blue and black arrow" />Change in school attendance, if you are under age&nbsp;22.</p>
<p><img src="images/ball80.gif" width="20" height="10" border="0" alt="small blue and black arrow" />Change in lawful noncitizen status.</p>
<p><img src="images/ball80.gif" width="20" height="10" border="0" alt="small blue and black arrow" />Sponsor (or sponsor&rsquo;s spouse) changes of income, resources, or living arrangement for noncitizens. </p>
<p><img src="images/ball80.gif" width="20" height="10" border="0" alt="small blue and black arrow" />Leaving the U.S. for a full calendar month or for 30&nbsp; consecutive days or more; or
<p><img src="images/ball80.gif" width="20" height="10" border="0" alt="small blue and black arrow" />an unsatisfied felony or arrest warrant for escape from custody, flight to avoid prosecution or confinement, or flight-escape.</p>
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<h4 class="bluetitle"> WHAT MUST YOU ALSO REPORT IF YOU ARE A PERSON WITH A DISABILITY?<br />
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<ul><p><img src="images/ball80.gif" width="20" height="10" border="0" alt="small blue and black arrow" />Improvement in your medical condition.</p>
<p><img src="images/ball80.gif" width="20" height="10" border="0" alt="small blue and black arrow" />When you start or stop work, or have a change in pay or hours worked. </p>
<p><img src="images/ball80.gif" width="20" height="10" border="0" alt="small blue and black arrow" />Any change in your <a href="text-work-ussi.htm#ticket" onMouseOver="a('The Ticket to Work and Work Incentive Improvement Act of 1999');return true" onMouseOut="b()">Ticket to Work</a> status.</p>
<p><img src="images/ball80.gif" width="20" height="10" border="0" alt="small blue and black arrow" />Any change in your work or <a href="text-work-ussi.htm#pass">Plan to Achieve Self-Support (PASS) </a> expenses.</ul>
<h4 class="bluetitle">WHEN DO YOU NEED TO REPORT? </h4>
<p>Report any changes that may affect your SSI as soon as possible and no later than 10&nbsp;days after the end of the month in which the change occurred.</p>
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<h4 class="bluetitle"> WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU DO NOT REPORT CHANGES TIMELY AND ACCURATELY? </h4></span>You may be underpaid and not receive the benefits due to you, as quickly as you otherwise could, if you do not report changes on time.
<p>We may <a href="text-overpay-ussi.htm" onMouseOver="a('OVERPAYMENTS');return true" onMouseOut="b()">overpay </a>you and you may have to pay us back.  We may apply a penalty that will reduce your SSI payment by $25 to $100 for each time you fail to report a change to us, or you report the change later than 10 days after the end of the month in which the change occurred. </p>
<p>If you knowingly make a false or misleading statement or knowingly fail to report important changes, we may impose a sanction against your payments.  The first sanction period is a withholding of payments for 6 months.  Subsequent sanction periods are for 12 months and then 24 months. </p>
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