Does COVID-19 financial assistance affect my Supplemental Security Income (SSI) eligibility or payment?
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We recently changed our rules about what financial assistance can affect your eligibility for SSI or your monthly SSI payment amount. Specifically, we no longer count the financial assistance listed below against your eligibility or payment amount. We are reviewing SSI claims and other SSI records going back to the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic to restore SSI payments for people whose SSI was affected by receiving any of the assistance listed below.
- What should I do if my SSI was affected because I received, or still receive, any of the assistance listed below?
- What should I do if I was denied SSI because I was receiving any of the assistance listed below or I had received the assistance and saved the money?
- I was not already receiving SSI, but interested in applying for it. What should I do?
- What COVID-19 financial assistance no longer counts against SSI eligibility or SSI payment amount?
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