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SSI State Supplement - Oregon

Oregon provides State Supplements to Federal SSI benefit payments for residents in one of the living arrangements specified in the table below.

General Information

Notes about specific items, if any, display as colored letters within brackets in the table. Their explanation directly follows the table. You may click on these colored letters within the table to jump immediately to the explanations. Use the Back button in the Help window to return to your place in the table. If additional information is available, it follows after any notes.

Unless otherwise stated, payment levels apply equally to people who are aged, people with blindness, and people with disabilities. Benefit amounts are usually adjusted annually, and become effective January 1st. The table shows monthly payment levels for calendar year 2006.

If you are using this version of WorkWORLD after January 1, 2007, you should be able to get the updated numbers from your local office of the Adult and Family Services Division or Senior and Disabled Services Division.

Definitions for specific Living Arrangement terms are provided below the table. Click on the term to go to the definition.

Payment Levels

Notes

[a] Additional costs covered by special service funds.

[b] Persons with veterans aid and attendance income are allowed to keep $90.00 as a personal needs allowance.

[c] The state no longer supplements couples in adult foster care, residential care, assisted living, or specialized living. These recipients are covered under a home and community waiver. The income standard is 300 percent of the SSI standard for a single recipient.

Living Arrangements Definitions

Living independently - Includes recipients living alone in their own household.

Living in the household of another - Includes all recipients who live in the household of another.

Living in an adult foster care - Homes or other facilities that include board and room and 24-hour care and service for five or fewer elderly or disabled persons who are aged 18 or older.

Living in residential care - Facilities of one or more buildings on contiguous property that provide 24-hour care and service to six or more people age 16 or older.

Additional Information

NOTE: See SSI State Supplement Guide to Terms for definitions of each of the below categories.

Scope of Coverage

Optional State supplement provided to every SSI recipient in the living arrangements listed under "Payment Levels." Blind children are eligible, and disabled children under age 18 are ineligible for state supplementation.

Recoveries, Liens, and Assignments

Assistance paid constitutes an unsecured prior claim against property or any interest therein belonging to the estate of a recipient except such portion as is being occupied as a home by the spouse, minor dependent child, or parent of deceased recipient. The Department of Human Services may compromise claim by accepting other security or may waive payment when enforcement would be inequitable and would tend to defeat the purpose of public assistance law.

Relative Responsibility

None.

Income Disregards

For earned income, no disregards in addition to the Federal income disregards; for unearned income, no income disregards.

Resource Limitations

Federal SSI resource limitations apply except that the transfer of a home may render a person ineligible within 60 months of application.

Place of Application

Local offices of the Department of Human Services.

Source

SSA Publication No. 13-11975 [latest edition available], State Assistance Programs for SSI Recipients, January 2006 (released October 2006) online at:
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/policy/docs/progdesc/ssi_st_asst/2006/index.html

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