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Aged, Blind and Disabled Manual Policy Manual Number: 115.025 Section: Categories of Eligibility Chapter: SSI Cash Recipient

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7. Cluster Daniels and SSI Terminations SSI Medicaid Only SSI Medicaid Only recipients, also known as the Cluster Daniels individuals, are those individuals that remain eligible for TennCare Medicaid because they received a minimum of one SSI check in Tennessee since November 1987 and had their SSI terminated while a resident of Tennessee. The Daniels injunction was lifted on January 8, 2009 and reverification of this group of enrollees began in June 2009. Any SSI Medicaid Only recipients who have not yet been processed are reviewed for eligibility in open categories of Medicaid.

8. SSI Cash Recipient Enrollment Procedure TennCare receives a file directly from the SSA that contains all SSI eligibility determinations. TennCare automatically loads the State Data Exchange (SDX) file to TEDS to enroll SSI cash recipients in TennCare Medicaid.

SDX data may also be used as needed for verification of SSI benefit information.