Mandatory pass-through of increased personal needs allowance
In order for any State which makes supplementary payments of the type described in section 1382e(a) of this title (including payments pursuant to an agreement entered into under section 212(a) of Public Law 93–66 ) to recipients of benefits determined under section 1382(e)(1)(B) of this title , on or after October 1, 1987 , to be eligible for payments pursuant to subchapter XIX with respect to any calendar quarter which begins—
(1)
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after October 1, 1987 , or, if later
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after the calendar quarter in which it first makes such supplementary payments to recipients of benefits so determined,
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continue to make such supplementary payments to recipients of benefits so determined, and
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maintain such supplementary payments to recipients of benefits so determined at levels which assure (with respect to any particular month beginning with July 1988) that—
(A) the combined level of such supplementary payments and the amounts payable to or on behalf of such recipients under section 1382(e)(1)(B) of this title for that particular month,
is not less than—
(B) the combined level of such supplementary payments and the amounts payable to or on behalf of such recipients under section 1382(e)(1)(B) of this title for October 1987 (or, if no such supplementary payments were made for that month, the combined level for the first subsequent month for which such payments were made), increased— (i) in a case to which clause (i) of such section 1382(e)(1)(B) of this title applies or (with respect to the individual or spouse who is in the hospital, home, or facility involved) to which clause (ii) of such section applies, by $5, and (ii) in a case to which clause (iii) of such section 1382(e)(1)(B) of this title applies, by $10.