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<h1>State Assistance Programs for <abbr class="spell">SSI</abbr> Recipients, January&nbsp;2002</h1>
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<h1>Vermont</h1>
<h2>State Supplementation</h2>
<h3>Mandatory Minimum Supplementation</h3>
<p>No recipients.</p>
<h3>Optional State Supplementation</h3>
<p><span class="h4">Administration:</span> State Agency of Human Services, Department of Prevention, Assistance, Transition, and Health Access, administers the state-funded program for essential persons. All other optional state supplements are administered by the Social Security Administration.</p>
<p><span class="h4">Effective date:</span> January&nbsp;1,&nbsp;1974.</p>
<p><span class="h4">Statutory basis for payment:</span> Vermont
Statutes Annotated, title&nbsp;33, chapter&nbsp;13, Aid to Aged, Blind, and Disabled.</p>
<h4>Funding</h4>
<p><span class="h5">Administration:</span> State funds.</p>
<p><span class="h5">Assistance:</span> State funds.</p>
<p><span class="h4">Passalong method:</span> Maintaining payment levels.</p>
<p><span class="h4">Place of application:</span> Social Security
Administration field offices.</p>
<p><span class="h4">Scope of coverage:</span> Optional state supplement provided to SSI-eligible aged, blind, and disabled individuals, including children.</p>
<p><span class="h4">Resource limitations:</span> Same as federal.</p>
<p><span class="h4">Income exclusions:</span> Same as federal.</p>
<p><span class="h4">Recoveries, liens, and assignments:</span> None.</p>
<p><span class="h4">Responsibility of relatives:</span> None.</p>
<p><span class="h4">Interim assistance:</span> State participates.</p>
<p><span class="h4">Payment levels:</span> See Table&nbsp;1.</p>
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<caption><span class="tableNumber">Table&nbsp;1. </span>Optional state supplementation payment levels (in dollars)</caption>
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<th class="stubHeading" rowspan="2" scope="colgroup">Living arrangement</th>
<th class="center" rowspan="2" scope="colgroup">State code</th>
<th class="spanner" colspan="2" scope="colgroup">Combined federal<br>and state</th>
<th class="spanner" colspan="2" scope="colgroup">State supplementation</th>
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<th scope="col">Individual</th>
<th scope="col">Couple</th>
<th scope="col">Individual</th>
<th scope="col">Couple</th>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Living independently</th>
<td class="center">A and B</td>
<td>604.04</td>
<td>927.88</td>
<td>59.04</td>
<td>110.88</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Living in assistive community care, Level&nbsp;III</th>
<td class="center">C</td>
<td>593.38</td>
<td>913.77</td>
<td>48.38</td>
<td>96.77</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Living in the household of another</th>
<td class="center">E</td>
<td>402.64</td>
<td>592.98</td>
<td>39.30</td>
<td>48.31</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Living in a residential care home, Level&nbsp;IV</th>
<td class="center">G</td>
<td>768.94</td>
<td>1,379.06</td>
<td>223.94</td>
<td>562.06</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Living in a custodial care family home</th>
<td class="center">H</td>
<td>643.69</td>
<td>1,149.82</td>
<td>98.69</td>
<td>332.82</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Living in a Medicaid facility</th>
<td class="center">I</td>
<td>47.66</td>
<td>95.33</td>
<td>17.66</td>
<td>35.33</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Living independently with an essential person&nbsp;<sup>a</sup></th>
<td class="center">.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.</td>
<td>927.88</td>
<td>1,111.69</td>
<td>109.88</td>
<td>21.69</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Living in the household of another with an ineligible spouse who is an essential person&nbsp;<sup>a</sup></th>
<td class="center">.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.</td>
<td>604.04</td>
<td>.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.</td>
<td>59.37</td>
<td>.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.</td>
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<td class="firstNote" colspan="6">NOTE: .&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;= not applicable.</td>
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<td class="note" colspan="6">a. State administers payments.</td>
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<td class="lastNote" colspan="6">DEFINITIONS:
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<dt>A and B: Living independently</dt>
<dd>Includes eligible recipients who are not in any other state living arrangement. Includes children who are living with parents, recipients residing in private Title&nbsp;XIX facilities where Medicaid is not paying more than 50&nbsp;percent of the cost of care, and recipients residing in publicly operated emergency shelters throughout a month.</dd>
<dt>C: Living in assistive community care, Level&nbsp;III</dt>
<dd>Effective July&nbsp;1,&nbsp;1999, includes any individual who resides in a Level III residential care home that is certified by the Department of Disabilities and Aging to provide assistive community care services.</dd>
<dt>E: Living in the household of another</dt>
<dd>Includes recipients residing in a federal Code&nbsp;B living arrangement who are not otherwise exempted from state supplementation.</dd>
<dt>G: Living in a residential care home, Level&nbsp;IV</dt>
<dd>Includes recipients living in Level&nbsp;IV community homes identified by the state.</dd>
<dt>H: Living in a custodial care family home</dt>
<dd>Includes recipients who are residing in a federal Code&nbsp;A living arrangement, live in another's home, pay room and board, and receive one or more custodial services. Custodial care includes providing basic room and board, plus such services as help with feeding, dressing, bathing, moving under normal circumstances, and occasional tray service and supervision for the recipients' protection. To qualify as a home under this arrangement, these services must be provided by a resident of the home and cannot be provided to more than two persons in the home. Custodial care or supervision provided by a spouse is not included under this arrangement.</dd>
<dt>I: Living in a Medicaid facility</dt>
<dd>Includes recipients residing in a federal code&nbsp;D living arrangement.</dd>
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<p><span class="h4">Number of recipients:</span> See Table&nbsp;2.</p>
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<caption><span class="tableNumber">Table&nbsp;2. </span>Number of persons receiving optional state supplementation, January&nbsp;2002</caption>
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<th class="stubHeading" rowspan="2" scope="colgroup">Living arrangement</th>
<th class="center" rowspan="2" scope="colgroup">State code</th>
<th rowspan="2" scope="colgroup">Total</th>
<th rowspan="2" scope="colgroup">Aged</th>
<th rowspan="2" scope="colgroup">Blind</th>
<th class="spanner" colspan="2" scope="colgroup">Disabled</th>
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<th scope="col">Adults</th>
<th scope="col">Children</th>
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<th class="stub1" scope="row">All recipients</th>
<td class="center"></td>
<td>12,730</td>
<td>1,430</td>
<td>160</td>
<td>9,340</td>
<td>1,800</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Living independently</th>
<td class="center">A and B</td>
<td>11,000</td>
<td>1,270</td>
<td>110</td>
<td>8,000</td>
<td>1,620</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Living in assistive community care, Level&nbsp;III</th>
<td class="center">C</td>
<td>110</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>20</td>
<td>70</td>
<td>20</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Living in the household of another</th>
<td class="center">E</td>
<td>260</td>
<td>70</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>190</td>
<td>0</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Living in a residential care home, Level&nbsp;IV</th>
<td class="center">G</td>
<td>260</td>
<td>60</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>200</td>
<td>0</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Living in a custodial care family home</th>
<td class="center">H</td>
<td>960</td>
<td>10</td>
<td>20</td>
<td>780</td>
<td>150</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Living in a Medicaid facility</th>
<td class="center">I</td>
<td>140</td>
<td>20</td>
<td>10</td>
<td>100</td>
<td>10</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Living independently with an essential person</th>
<td class="center">.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Living in the household of another with an ineligible spouse who is an essential person</th>
<td class="center">.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
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<td class="onlyNote" colspan="7">NOTE: .&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;= not applicable.</td>
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<h2>State Assistance for Special Needs</h2>
<h3>Administration</h3>
<p>Agency of Human Services, Department of Prevention, Assistance, Transition, and Health Access.</p>
<h3>Special Needs Circumstances</h3>
<p>Emergency assistance is provided, under certain conditions, for court-ordered evictions, natural disasters (e.g., fire, flood, or hurricane), emergency medical care, funeral costs, and emergency fuel needs.</p>
<h2>Medicaid</h2>
<h3>Eligibility</h3>
<p><span class="h4">Criteria:</span> SSI program guidelines (Title&nbsp;XVI).</p>
<p><span class="h4">Determined by:</span> Social Security Administration.</p>
<h3>Medically Needy Program</h3>
<p>State provides a program for the aged, blind, and disabled medically needy.</p>
<h3>Unpaid Medical Expenses</h3>
<p>The Social Security Administration does not obtain this information.</p>
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