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<h1>State Assistance Programs for SSI Recipients, January&nbsp;2008</h1>
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<h1>New Jersey</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> Social Security Administration.</p>
<p><span class="h4">Effective date:</span> January&nbsp;1, 1974.</p>
<p><span class="h4">Statutory basis for payment:</span> New Jersey Statutes Annotated, 44:7-86.</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 all aged, blind, and disabled recipients, including children, except those in publicly operated community residences or facilities where Medicaid pays less than 50&nbsp;percent of the cost of care. Supplementation provided to recipients in approved residential facilities.</p>
<p><span class="h4">Resource limitations:</span> Federal <abbr class="spell">SSI</abbr> regulations apply.</p>
<p><span class="h4">Income exclusions:</span> Federal <abbr class="spell">SSI</abbr> regulations apply.</p>
<p><span class="h4">Recoveries, liens, and assignments:</span> None.</p>
<p><span class="h4">Financial responsibility of relatives:</span> None.</p>
<p><span class="h4">Interim assistance:</span> State participates.</p>
<p><span class="h4">Payment calculation method:</span> Not provided by state.</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, January&nbsp;2008 (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 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">Congregate care facility&nbsp;<sup>a</sup></th>
<td class="center">A</td>
<td>787.05</td>
<td>1,555.36</td>
<td>150.05</td>
<td>599.36</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Living alone or with others</th>
<td class="center">B</td>
<td>668.25</td>
<td>981.36</td>
<td>31.25</td>
<td>25.36</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Living alone with an ineligible spouse</th>
<td class="center">C</td>
<td>981.36</td>
<td>&#8230;</td>
<td>344.36</td>
<td>&#8230; </td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Living with an essential person</th>
<td class="center">C</td>
<td>981.36</td>
<td>&#8230;</td>
<td>25.36</td>
<td>&#8230;</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Living in the household of another </th>
<td class="center">D</td>
<td>468.98</td>
<td>730.43</td>
<td>44.31</td>
<td>93.09</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Medicaid facility</th>
<td class="center">G</td>
<td>40.00</td>
<td>80.00</td>
<td>10.00</td>
<td>20.00</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Residential health care facility&nbsp;<sup>b</sup></th>
<td class="center">I</td>
<td>847.05</td>
<td>1,675.36</td>
<td>210.05</td>
<td>719.36</td>
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<td class="firstNote" colspan="6">SOURCE: Social Security Administration, Office of Income Security Programs.</td>
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<td class="note" colspan="6">NOTE: &#8230; = not applicable.</td>
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<td class="note" colspan="6">a. State supplement includes a $94.50 personal needs allowance per person residing in a boarding home.</td>
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<td class="note" colspan="6">b. State supplement includes a $104.50 personal needs allowance per person residing in a residential health care facility.</td>
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<td class="lastNote" colspan="6">DEFINITIONS:
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<dt>A: Congregate care facility.</dt>
<dd>Includes recipients in:
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<li>Residential heath care facilities who are under the supervision of the Department of Human Services.</li>
<li>Recipients in residential facilities for children and adults under the supervision of or placement by the Division of Developmental Disabilities or the Division of Youth and Family Services and supervised or placed by the Department of Human Services.</li>
<li>Recipients in assisted living residences and in comprehensive personal care homes licensed by the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services.</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt>B: Living alone or with others.</dt>
<dd>Includes recipients residing in a federal Code&nbsp;A or C living arrangement who do not meet the definitions of other state living arrangements. Includes persons in:
<ul>
<li>The Transitional Residency Program when their placement is through the Division of Mental Health and Hospitals, Department of Human Services,</li>
<li>Room and board facilities licensed by the Department of Community Affairs, and</li>
<li>Persons in medical facilities who reside in a federal Code&nbsp;A living arrangement on the basis of their eligibility under <span class="nobr">section 1611(e)(1)(E)</span> of the Social Security Act.</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt>C: Living alone or with an ineligible spouse.</dt>
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<ul>
<li>Applies to recipients who live with their ineligible spouse only or with their ineligible spouse and foster children only.</li>
<li>Uses federal criteria. Recipient currently has an essential person living in the household and in December&nbsp;1973 was receiving assistance under an approved state plan that covered the needs of an essential person.</li>
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<dt>D: Living in the household of another.</dt>
<dd>Includes recipients residing in a federal Code&nbsp;B living arrangement.</dd>
<dt>G: Medicaid facility.</dt>
<dd>Includes recipients residing in a federal Code&nbsp;D living arrangement.</dd>
<dt>I: Residential health care facility.</dt>
<dd>Includes facilities that have been approved by the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (<abbr class="spell">DCA</abbr>) and are either free-standing or attached to a nursing home, an assisted living residence, or a comprehensive personal care home approved by DCA.</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;2008</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>
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<td>155,452</td>
<td>33,686</td>
<td>805</td>
<td>89,372</td>
<td>31,589</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Congregate care facility </th>
<td class="center">A</td>
<td>4,752</td>
<td>449</td>
<td>30</td>
<td>3,690</td>
<td>583</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Living alone or with others</th>
<td class="center">B</td>
<td>119,003</td>
<td>21,800</td>
<td>608</td>
<td>69,085</td>
<td>27,510</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Living alone with an ineligible spouse or essential person</th>
<td class="center">C</td>
<td>5,677</td>
<td>2,760</td>
<td>27</td>
<td>2,887</td>
<td>3</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Living in the household of another</th>
<td class="center">D</td>
<td>20,359</td>
<td>7,708</td>
<td>121</td>
<td>9,664</td>
<td>2,866</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Medicaid facility</th>
<td class="center">G</td>
<td>4,161</td>
<td>876</td>
<td>16</td>
<td>2,654</td>
<td>615</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Residential health care facility</th>
<td class="center">I</td>
<td>1,500</td>
<td>93</td>
<td>3</td>
<td>1,392</td>
<td>12</td>
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<td class="onlyNote" colspan="7">SOURCE: Social Security Administration, Supplemental Security Record, 100&nbsp;percent data.</td>
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</table>
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<p><span class="h4">Total expenditures:</span> The Social Security Administration reported expenditures of $86,261,000 for calendar year 2007 in federally administered payments to <abbr class="spell">SSI</abbr> recipients.</p>
<h2>State Assistance for Special Needs</h2>
<h3>Administration</h3>
<p>State Department of Human Services, Division of Family Development.</p>
<h3>Special Needs Circumstances</h3>
<p>Emergency assistance for catastrophic events and burial and funeral payments. Eligibility for payments based on meeting requirements for mandatory minimum or optional state supplementary payments.</p>
<h2>Medicaid</h2>
<h3>Eligibility</h3>
<p><span class="h4">Criteria:</span> <abbr class="spell">SSI</abbr> 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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