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Proposed ruling would improve benefits for SSI recipients
As noted in the Federal Register. the comment period for a proposed regulation update that would help Supplemental Security Income recipients maximize their available benefits is open through April 17, 2023. Here’s a summary of the proposed rule excerpted from the Federal Register: “We propose to update our regulations to remove food from the calculation of In-Kind Support and Maintenance (ISM). We also propose to add conforming language to our definition of income, excluding food from the ISM calculation. Accordingly, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) applicants and recipients would no longer need to provide information about their food expenses for us to consider in our ISM calculations. We expect that these changes will simplify our rules, making them less cumbersome to administer and easier for the public to understand and follow. These simplifications would make it easier for SSI applicants and recipients to comply with our program requirements, which would save time for both them and us, and improve the equitable treatment of food assistance within the SSI program. The proposed rule also includes other, minor revisions to the regulations related to income, including clarifying our longstanding position that income may be received “constructively.”
For more information on this proposal, check out this post by kplctv.com’s Jade Moreau here…