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COMBINED MANUAL

ISSUE DATE 09/2020

MSA ASSISTANCE STANDARDS

0020.21

APPLY THE $614.66 LIVING WITH OTHERS STANDARD WHEN:

● A person receives SSI benefits based on the $522 SSI FBR, and is not eligible for MA waivers, a GRH plan, or MSA Housing Assistance.

● A person does NOT receive SSI solely due to excess income, and lives with others (including minor children but excluding spouse), and is NOT eligible for MA waivers, a GRH plan, or MSA Housing Assistance.

● A person at the SSI $783 FBR and lives with others (including minor children). Do not apply this standard to a person living only with a spouse ineligible for MSA (see "Apply the $844 living alone standard when:" above.)

● A married person lives with his or her ineligible spouse and receives SSI benefits based on the $522 FBR, and is NOT eligible for MA waivers, a GRH plan, or MSA Housing Assistance.

APPLY THE $1,266 (OR $1,281 PRE-1994) STANDARD FOR A MARRIED COUPLE LIVING TOGETHER WHEN:

● Couple receives SSI based on the $1,175 FBR or is ineligible for SSI solely due to excess income and lives alone.

● Couple receives SSI based on the $1,175 FBR or is ineligible for SSI solely due to excess income, lives with others, and one or both is eligible for MA Waivers, a GRH plan, or MSA Housing Assistance.

● Couple at the SSI $1,175 FBR due to presidential disaster declaration and/or being homeless.

APPLY THE $847.34 (OR $1,110.34 PRE-1994) STANDARD FOR A MARRIED COUPLE LIVING WITH OTHERS WHEN:

● Couple lives with others and receives SSI benefits based on the $783.34 FBR or is ineligible for SSI solely due to excess income.

● Couple receives SSI based on the $1,175 FBR, lives with others, and are NOT eligible for MA Waivers, a GRH plan, or MSA Housing Assistance.

MSA FACILITIES STANDARD:

The assistance standard for people at the SSI $30 FBR (Federal Living Arrangement “D”) and living in facilities where personal needs are not otherwise provided, OR some children who are blind, is the personal needs allowance - $104. See 0020.24 (Personal Needs Allowance) for eligibility requirements.

A person hospitalized for illness may continue to receive their community standard established before being hospitalized if it is more than the personal needs allowance and if the person meets the conditions of temporary absence in 0014.09 (Assistance Units - Temporary Absence).

MSA clients who are residents of a licensed residential facility are NOT eligible for any special needs allowances EXCEPT for representative payee services. See 0023.21 (Representative Payee Services).

NOTE: Clients in a Minnesota Consolidated Chemical Dependency Treatment Fund (CCDTF) facility are NOT eligible for MSA.