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<h1>State Assistance Programs for <abbr class="spell">SSI</abbr> Recipients, January&nbsp;2002</h1>
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<h1>Washington</h1>
<h2>State Supplementation</h2>
<h3>Mandatory Minimum Supplementation</h3>
<p><span class="h4">Administration:</span> Social Security Administration.</p>
<h3>Optional State Supplementation</h3>
<p><span class="h4">Administration:</span> State Department of Social and Health Services administers payments to SSI recipients in Medicaid facilities. All other 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> State law in Revised Code of Washington&nbsp;<span class="nobr">74.04.600</span>&ndash;74.04.630 and state policy in Washington Administrative Code&nbsp;<span class="nobr">388-474</span>.</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 total expenditures.</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 needy aged, blind, and disabled persons, including children, except for individuals converted from former state assistance programs who have more than one essential person, eligible couples with one or more essential persons, and residents of public emergency shelters for the homeless.</p>
<p><span class="h4">Resource limitations:</span> Federal SSI resource limitations apply.</p>
<p><span class="h4">Income exclusions:</span> Federal SSI income exclusions apply.</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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<colgroup span="1" style="width:6em"></colgroup>
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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="rowgroup">Living independently&nbsp;<sup>a</sup></th>
<td class="center">A</td>
<td colspan="4"></td>
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<th class="stub1" scope="row">Area&nbsp;1</th>
<td class="center"></td>
<td>570.90</td>
<td>836.90</td>
<td>25.90</td>
<td>19.90</td>
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<th class="stub1" scope="row">Area&nbsp;2</th>
<td class="center"></td>
<td>550.45</td>
<td>817.00</td>
<td>5.45</td>
<td>.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="rowgroup">Living with an ineligible spouse&nbsp;<sup>b</sup></th>
<td class="center">B</td>
<td colspan="4"></td>
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<th class="stub1" scope="row">Area&nbsp;1</th>
<td class="center"></td>
<td>711.10</td>
<td>.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.</td>
<td>166.10</td>
<td>.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.</td>
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<th class="stub1" scope="row">Area&nbsp;2</th>
<td class="center"></td>
<td>681.15</td>
<td>.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.</td>
<td>136.15</td>
<td>.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Living in the household of another</th>
<td class="center">C</td>
<td>367.05</td>
<td>548.87</td>
<td>3.71</td>
<td>4.20</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Living in the household of another with an ineligible spouse</th>
<td class="center">F</td>
<td>465.00</td>
<td>.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.</td>
<td>101.66</td>
<td>.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Living in a Medicaid facility&nbsp;<sup>c</sup></th>
<td class="center">.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.</td>
<td>41.62</td>
<td>83.24</td>
<td>11.62</td>
<td>23.24</td>
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<td class="firstNote" colspan="6">NOTES: Area&nbsp;1 includes King, Kitsap, Pierce, Snohomish, and Thurston counties. Area&nbsp;2 includes all other counties.</td>
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<td class="note" colspan="6">.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;= not applicable.</td>
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<td class="note" colspan="6">a. Includes persons in congregate care group facilities.</td>
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<td class="note" colspan="6">b. Applies only to cases converted from former state assistance programs.</td>
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<td class="note" colspan="6">c. State administers payments.</td>
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<td class="lastNote" colspan="6">DEFINITIONS:
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<dt>A: Living independently</dt>
<dd>Applies to recipients residing in a federal Code&nbsp;A or C living arrangement unless they are living with an ineligible spouse or temporarily residing in a medical institution.</dd>
<dt>B: Living with an ineligible spouse</dt>
<dd>Applies to recipients who are living independently with a spouse who does not qualify for SSI payments.</dd>
<dt>C: Living in the household of another</dt>
<dd>Applies to recipients residing in a federal Code&nbsp;B living arrangement unless they are living with an ineligible spouse or temporarily residing in a medical institution.</dd>
<dt>F: Living in the household of another with an ineligible spouse</dt>
<dd>Includes recipients residing in a federal Code&nbsp;B living arrangement who have an ineligible spouse.</dd>
<dt>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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<colgroup span="1" style="width:6em"></colgroup>
<colgroup span="1" style="width:6em"></colgroup>
<colgroup span="1" style="width:6em"></colgroup>
<colgroup span="1" style="width:6em"></colgroup>
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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>97,850</td>
<td>12,710</td>
<td>870</td>
<td>69,330</td>
<td>14,940</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Living independently</th>
<td class="center">A</td>
<td>91,760</td>
<td>11,850</td>
<td>760</td>
<td>64,430</td>
<td>14,720</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Living with an ineligible spouse</th>
<td class="center">B</td>
<td>4,650</td>
<td>580</td>
<td>90</td>
<td>3,980</td>
<td>0</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Living in the household of another</th>
<td class="center">C</td>
<td>1,440</td>
<td>280</td>
<td>20</td>
<td>920</td>
<td>220</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Living in the household of another with an ineligible spouse</th>
<td class="center">F</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 a Medicaid facility&nbsp;<sup>a</sup></th>
<td class="center">.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.</td>
<td>b</td>
<td>b</td>
<td>b</td>
<td>b</td>
<td>b</td>
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<td class="firstNote" colspan="7">NOTE: .&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;= not applicable.</td>
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<td class="note" colspan="7">a. State administers payments.</td>
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<td class="lastNote" colspan="7">b. Data are not available.</td>
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<h2>State Assistance for Special Needs</h2>
<h3>Administration</h3>
<p>Department of Social and Health Services, Economic Services Administration, Division of Assistance Programs.</p>
<h3>Special Needs Circumstances</h3>
<p><span class="h4">Guide dog:</span> Food for service animal at the rate of $33.66 per month.</p>
<h4>Other utility charges</h4>
<p><span class="h5">Telephone:</span> Amount varies according to need and location.</p>
<p><span class="h5">Laundry:</span> $11.13 per month.</p>
<h4>Meals</h4>
<p><span class="h5">Restaurant meals:</span> $187.09 per month; $6.04 per day.</p>
<p><span class="h5">Home-delivered meals:</span> The amount charged by the agency delivering the service.</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 obtains this information.</p>
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