[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 2]
[Revised as of April 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 20CFR416.1902]

[Page 1190]
 
                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
               CHAPTER III--SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
 
PART 416_SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME FOR THE AGED, BLIND, AND DISABLED--Table of Contents
 
                 Subpart S_Interim Assistance Provisions
 
Sec. 416.1902  Definitions.

    For purposes of this subpart--
    Authorization means your written permission, in a form legally 
acceptable to us and to the State from which you received interim 
assistance, for us to withhold the appropriate SSI benefit payment and 
send it to the State.
    Interim assistance means assistance the State gives you, including 
payments made on your behalf to providers of goods or services, to meet 
your basic needs, beginning with the first month for which you are 
eligible for payment of SSI benefits and ending with, and including, the 
month your SSI payments begin, or assistance the State gives you 
beginning with the day for which your eligibility for SSI benefits is 
reinstated after a period of suspension or termination and ending with, 
and including, the month the Commissioner makes the first payment of 
benefits following the suspension or termination if it is determined 
subsequently that you were eligible for benefits during that period. It 
does not include assistance the State gives to or for any other person. 
If the State has prepared and cannot stop delivery of its last 
assistance payment to you when it receives your SSI benefit payment from 
us, that assistance payment is included as interim assistance to be 
reimbursed. Interim assistance does not include assistance payments 
financed wholly or partly with Federal funds.
    SSI benefit payment means your Federal benefit and any State 
supplementary payment made by us to you on behalf of a State (see 
subpart T of this part) which is due you at the time we make the first 
payment of benefits or when your benefits are reinstated after 
suspension or termination. Advance payment, as defined in Sec. 416.520, 
payment based upon presumptive disability or presumptive blindness, as 
defined in Sec. 416.931, or certain payments made under the 
administrative immediate payment procedure, are not considered SSI 
benefit payments for interim assistance purposes.
    State for purposes of an interim assistance agreement, means a State 
of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Northern Mariana 
Islands. For all other purposes (for example, payment, appeals, notices) 
State also means a political subdivision of any of these.
    We, Us, or Our means the Social Security Administration.
    You or Your means someone who has applied for or is already 
receiving SSI benefits.

[46 FR 47449, Sept. 28, 1981; 46 FR 50947, Oct. 16, 1981, as amended at 
56 FR 19262, Apr. 26, 1991; 56 FR 25446, June 4, 1991; 62 FR 38455, July 
18, 1997; 64 FR 31975, June 15, 1999]

                             Authorizations