Supplemental Security Income benefits have not been updated in years. Several rule changes to take effect in September are aimed at improving accessibility.
is set to implement new rules to make it easier for beneficiaries to access certain benefits and increase the payments some may receive., or SSI, which provides more than 7 million Americans with monthly benefit checks. Those benefits are for seniors ages 65 and up, or adults and children who are disabled or blind, and who have little or no income or resources.
With the change, more people may qualify for SSI, current beneficiaries may see higher payments and individuals who live in public-assistance households may have fewer reporting requirements, according to the Social Security Administration.A public-assistance household will be defined as one with both an SSI applicant or beneficiary, as well as at least one other member who receives one or more forms of means-tested public income maintenance payments.
What's more, there are many ways in which SSI is still operating under rules devised in the 1980s, said Brown of the National Disability Institute.
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