Supplemental Security Income

noun

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

Example Sentences

Congress had enacted byzantine eligibility requirements for disability and Supplemental Security Income benefits, forcing the agency to expend huge amounts of time and money running those programs.

From Salon

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

He reasons that a bipolar label might have been “the easiest application” to get them released with a diagnosis and therefore eligible for Supplemental Security Income.

From Slate