Supplemental Security Income

American  

noun

1. income provided by the U.S. government to needy aged, blind, and disabled persons. SSI

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Example Sentences

As of the last count, at the end of August, the Social Security Administration reported that there were 67.115 million people claiming Social Security alone, plus another 2.548 million claiming both Social Security and Supplemental Security Income.

From MarketWatch

Congress should also guarantee island residents equal access to federal benefits—Supplemental Security Income, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Medicaid and Medicare.

From The Wall Street Journal

According to the department, the subpoena requests all records from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services, the agency that administers the state program, to determine if ineligible immigrants received supplemental security income from the Social Security Administration over the last four years.

From Los Angeles Times

Because he was in a hospital, he was unable to spend his monthly Supplemental Security Income payments, which accumulated until he had too much money to keep his health coverage.

From Salon

He met grandmothers raising disabled children who needed a redetermination of their supplemental security income, and people on SSI who were part-time working and “jumping through all of the hoops to prove that they're not earning too much, coming in with their pay stubs every week. Those are all the human stories that I saw.”

From Salon