SPOTLIGHT ON SSI TEMPORARY INSTITUTIONALIZATION BENEFITS FOR PERSONS WHO ARE INSTITUTIONALIZED 90 DAYS OR LESS-- 2022 Edition

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WHAT HAPPENS TO MY SSI BENEFITS IF I GO INTO A NURSING HOME OR Infirmary?

Generally, if you enter a nursing home or hospital (or other medical facility) where Medicaid pays for more than half of the cost of your care, your Supplemental Security Income (SSI) do good is limited to $30 a month. And, in some medical confinement situations, you may not fifty-fifty be eligible for any SSI benefit.

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However, did y'all know that you might be able to continue to receive your FULL BENEFIT while institutionalized?

That is right, we have a special rule for people receiving SSI benefits who volition be in a medical facility for 90 days or less, which allows them to receive their full benefit (including Land Supplementation)—and all it takes to make up one's mind if yous qualify is the following central pieces of information.

WHAT INFORMATION Practice I NEED TO PROVIDE?

Nosotros need you or someone shut to you (i.e., Representative Payee, family fellow member, or friend) knowledgeable about your circumstances to written report to SSA via telephone or in-person that:

  • you lot entered a medical facility and volition exist there for 90 consecutive days or less, and
  • while you lot are in the facility you demand your SSI benefits to maintain your home or living system where you lot may return upon discharge.

In order to determine if you authorize, we besides demand a signed statement from your doc indicating whether he or she expects your medical confinement to concluding less than xc total sequent days, beginning with the day after you entered the institution. We demand these statements before your discharge appointment or by the 90th day, whichever is earlier. It is important for yous to report this information timely in order to receive temporary institutionalization benefits.

Are you having problems obtaining the above information?
We can help!

If yous demand assistance completing the above requirements, or obtaining the proper documentation, please contact a representative at your local SSA field function for help help or contact SSA customer service at ane-800-772-1213. We tin can also work directly with admissions offices so that nosotros tin can obtain the data we demand rapidly.

THIS INFORMATION IS GENERAL.
FOR More INFORMATION, CALL 1–800–772–1213 (TTY one–800–325–0778),
VISIT OUR WEBSITE (www.ssa.gov) ON THE INTERNET.