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BENDEX - Social Security Administration's Beneficiary Data Exchange System which provides the amount of RSDI benefits paid to people entered on the system.

BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs) - an agency within the Department of Interior.

Barrier to sale - there is an inherent legal restriction on the right to sell, convey or transfer the client's share or ownership of a resource.

Beneficiary - an individual having a present or future interest, vested or contingent, in the income from or principal of a trust, also used to designate recipients of Social Security benefits.

Best estimate - the Benefit Specialist's best determination based on knowledge of past, current and future case circumstances which accurately reflects all facts known to the Benefit Specialist at the time.

Blind - an individual receiving benefits for the blind.

Blind work expense exclusion - an amount disregarded for items necessary to enable the blind person to work, including but not limited to, attendant care for transportation, durable medical equipment or prosthetic devices.

Bona fide -

A. For burial, a trust, contract or agreement specified for that express purpose and there cannot be other funds or items designated for burial;

B. An offer made in good faith without fraud or deceit;

C. A bona fide loan is one where there is a written agreement to repay the loan.

Bona fide effort to sell - the act of putting property up for sale at a reasonable price and providing verification of same.

Break-in-aid - a period of one or more months in which a client is not eligible and does not receive assistance.

Burial fund -

A. A resource specifically designated for burial of a specified person;

B. Bank account, life insurance policy or written agreement with a funeral home specifically designated for burial of a specified person and not commingled with funds not set aside for burial.

Burial plot - a grave site, the value of which may include opening and closing costs, a vault, crypt, urn, grave marker, etc. (aka burial space item)

Burial space item - burial containers, burial plot, casket, crypt, gravesite, arrangements for the opening and closing costs, headstone, markers or plaques, mausoleum, urn, niche or other repository customarily and traditionally used for the deceased bodily remains. A contract for care and maintenance of the gravesite, sometimes referred to as endowment or perpetual care, can be excluded as a burial space.

Business expenses - for self-employment, the costs directly related to the production of goods or services provided by the operation which are then subtracted from the gross income to determine the net income.

Buy-in - When Medicaid pays the Part A or Part B Medicare premium for the client, that process is called Buy-in.