Supplemental Security Income: The Aged Eligible
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The supplemental security income programfinanced by general revenues-replaces the Federal grants to State-administered assistance programs for the aged (old-age assistance-OAA), the blind (aid to the blind-AB), and the disabled (aid to the permanently and totally disabled-APTD) .2 The State-administered program currently serves about 3.2 million persons, of whom 1.9 million are aged. The additional persons eligible for SSI payments are persons who, for various reasons, are not participating in or are ineligible for the current programs because of lien law ,restrictions, relative responsibility clauses, or resource limitations and payment levels lower than SSI’s. Nearly all SSI eligibles not receiving payments from the current OAA program are social security beneficiaries eligible for relatively small monthly supplements to low social security benefits. In addition, the 1972 amendments encourage but do not obligate a State to provide supplementary payments to SSI if its present payments are higher than the new SSI standards. If a
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