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Learn the basics (6)
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Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
Detailed information about the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. Content Detail
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Know Your Rights: Social Security Benefits
Find out if you qualify for Social Security benefits. Content Detail
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Comparison of SSD and SSI Disability Benefits
What's the difference between SSD and SSI? Read this article to find out! Content Detail
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Protecting your benefits
Learn how you can prevent problems that could arise with your public assistance by reading this article. Content Detail
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SSI Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
What is SSI (Supplemental Security Income)? Where do I apply for SSI? What can I do if my application for SSI is denied? Answers to these questions and more. Content Detail
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SSI Overpayments
What is an SSI overpayment? How do I fight/appeal an overpayment? How do I file a “Request for a Waiver” of an Overpayment? What if my “Request for a Waiver” is denied? Answers to these questions and others. Content Detail
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Forms and tools (1)
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ACCESS NYC
ACCESS NYC is a free service that can help you find out if you are eligible for over 30 benefit programs. Read More
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Hearings and appeals (3)
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Social Security and SSI Hearings and Appeals
A detailed description of what steps to take if you have applied for disability benefits and have been turned down. Read More
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Claiming Your Benefits
Read this if you think you qualify for Social Security Disability (SSD) and/or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits but don't know how to get these benefits. Content Detail
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- Chinese / 中文
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SSI Overpayments
What is an SSI overpayment? How do I fight/appeal an overpayment? How do I file a “Request for a Waiver” of an Overpayment? What if my “Request for a Waiver” is denied? Answers to these questions and others. Content Detail
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Representative payees (2)
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How do I get a representative payee for my social security benefits?
Information about representative payees for Social Security or SSI benefits in a simple question and answer format. Content Detail
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Your Rights As A Person Who Gets SSI or SSD through a Representative payee
Explains what a representative payee is, who needs one, what their duties are, and how to receive benefits directly if a representative payee is no longer necessary. Content Detail
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SSI and immigrants (3)
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Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for non-citizens
Explains which non-citizens are entitled to SSI and under what conditions. Content Detail
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SSI Spotlight on SSI benefits for Non-Citizens
Lists the non-citizen categories and how they affect SSI eligibility. Content Detail
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Do you have trouble speaking and understanding English?
If you have trouble speaking and understanding English, know your rights! Read More
SSI and incarceration (3)
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Fleeing Felon Disqualification For SSI
This fact sheet explains the fleeing felon rules, which disqualifies someone from receiving SSI benefits in certain cases. Read More
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Spotlight on Pre-release Procedures
Describes the procedures for planning in advance of release from any institutional situation (hospital, jail, etc.) so that an individual who is likely to be eligible for SSI because of age, disability or blindness has benefits available on or close to his or her release date. Content Detail
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What Prisoners Should Know About Social Security
Explains how prisoners who are about to be released can get back on benefits if they received benefits before incarceration, and how they can apply if they are seeking benefits for the first time. Content Detail
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SSI and living arrangements (3)
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Spotlight on Living Arrangements
The amount of SSI benefits a person gets is based in large part on the person's living arrangement. This explains what living arrangements are and how they can change. Content Detail
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Spotlight on Continuing SSI Benefits for Persons Who Are Temporarily Institutionalized
An SSI recipient who is hospitalized for 90 days or less may be eligible to continue to receive the community-rate SSI payment under certain circumstances described in this article. Content Detail
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Spotlight on Homelessness
This piece explains that homelessness is a living arrangement with special implications, and what those implications are. Content Detail
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SSI disability benefits and working (1)
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How Will My SSI Benefits Be Affected if I Take a Job?
This fact sheet explains the effect that working might have on your SSI benefits. It explains how much you can earn without losing some or all of your benefits and what happens to your Medicaid benefits if you work. Content Detail
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SSI income (4)
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SSI Spotlight on Resources
Eligibility for SSI requires that a recipient's resources be limited. This article discusses the nature and amounts of those limitations. Content Detail
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SSI Spotlight on Property You Need for Self-Support
This article focuses on what property for self-support means and how much of it excluded from being counted as a resource. Content Detail
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SSI Spotlight on Income from the Arts
Some SSI recipients occasionally make and sell art work. This article explains how SSI counts such income. Content Detail
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SSI Spotlight on Loans
Loans taken out or given by an SSI recipient are not ususally counted. This article explains how to determine the implications of a loan. Content Detail
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SSI overpayments (3)
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How do I handle an SSI overpayment?
Information on what steps to take if you have been overpaid by SSI. Content Detail
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SSI Overpayments
This article explains the rules on SSI overpayments and the appeal process. Content Detail
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SSI Overpayments
What is an SSI overpayment? How do I fight/appeal an overpayment? How do I file a “Request for a Waiver” of an Overpayment? What if my “Request for a Waiver” is denied? Answers to these questions and others. Content Detail
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- Spanish / Español
I need an interpreter (3)
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If You Need An Interpreter
We provide free interpreter services to help you conduct your Social Security business. These interpreter services are available whether you talk to us by phone or in the Social Security office. Click to learn more. Content Detail
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Do you have trouble speaking and understanding English?
If you have trouble speaking and understanding English, know your rights! Read More
Working and SSI (9)
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Working While Disabled: A Guide to Plans for Achieving Self-Support
Information about a program called Plans for Achieving Self-Support, or "PASS", which helps SSI recipients pay for certain things as part of a plan for working or trying to start a business. Content Detail
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How Will My SSI Benefits Be Affected if I Take a Job?
This fact sheet explains the effect that working might have on your SSI benefits. It explains how much you can earn without losing some or all of your benefits and what happens to your Medicaid benefits if you work. Content Detail
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Reporting Wages for People Who receive SSI
Every recipient of SSI who works is required to report the earnings. This piece explains how to report wages and the impact wages have on SSI benefits. Content Detail
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Blind Work Expenses
This link will take you to a PDF document that discusses the deductions that may be taken from earned income by persons who receive SSI on the basis of blindness. Content Detail
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How Work Affects Your Benefits
Discusses how work affects payment of Social Security Disability benefits. Content Detail
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2019 Red Book
The Red Book is a general reference for the employment-related provisions of Social Security Disability Insurance and the Supplemental Security Income Programs for educators, advocates, rehabilitation professionals, and counselors who help people with disabilities. Content Detail
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Reporting Wages for People Who receive SSI
Every receipient of SSI who works is required to report the earnings. This piece explains how to report wages and the impact wages have on SSI benefits. Content Detail
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Monthly wage reporting and SSI for sheltered workshop earnings
A discussion of how sheltered workshop earnings are considered in determining the continued financial eligibility for SSI. Content Detail
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Comparison of SSD and SSI Disability Benefits
What's the difference between SSD and SSI? Read this article to find out! Content Detail
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- Spanish / Español
