Mandatory minimum State sup- plementation Sample Clauses
The "Mandatory minimum State supplementation" clause requires states to provide a minimum level of additional financial support to certain federal benefit recipients. In practice, this means that states must supplement federal payments, such as those under the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, to ensure recipients receive at least a specified minimum income. This clause ensures that vulnerable populations, like the elderly or disabled, are not left with insufficient support due to variations in state assistance, thereby promoting a baseline standard of living across all states.
Mandatory minimum State sup- plementation. Any administration agreement between SSA and a State under which SSA will make such State’s mandatory minimum State supplementary payments shall provide that the State will:
(1) Certify income and payment amount. Certify to SSA the names of each indi- vidual who, for December 1973 was ▇▇▇- gible for and a recipient of aid or as- sistance in the form of money pay- ments under a plan of such State ap- proved under title I, X, XIV, or XVI of the Act (§ 416.121), together with the amount of such aid or assistance pay- able to each such individual and the amount of such individual’s other in- come (as defined in § 416.2050(b)(2)), and
(2) Additional data. Provide SSA with such additional data at such times as SSA may reasonably require in order to properly, economically, and effi- ciently carry out such administration agreement. This shall include required information on changes in countable income as well as changes in special needs and circumstances that would re- ▇▇▇▇ in a decrease in the mandatory in- come level being maintained by the State, unless the State has specified in the agreement that the minimum in- come level shall not be lowered by such changes. [40 FR 7640, Feb. 21, 1975, as amended at 62 FR 313, Jan. 3, 1997; 63 FR 33849, June 22, 1998]