7 AAC 40.375. Interim assistance; reimbursement

(a) An applicant who is eligible for interim assistance under 7 AAC 40.140 or 7 AAC 40.170 may receive interim assistance while the individual's eligibility for SSI is being determined by the Social Security Administration. Subject to (c) of this section, an applicant is eligible for interim assistance from the month in which an identifiable application, as described in 7 AAC 40.070(a) , is received through the month in which the individual's eligibility for SSI is determined.

(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of 7 AAC 40.370 and except as provided in 7 AAC 40.390, the amount of interim assistance provided in any month is $280 per eligible individual.

(c) As a condition of receiving interim assistance, an individual including an individual eligible for interim assistance on or before the day before the effective date of this section, must agree, in writing

(1) to repay the interim assistance for any month beginning on or after the effective date of this section for which the individual receives an SSI benefit; and

(2) to instruct the Social Security Administration to deliver the individual's initial SSI payment to the division.

(d) The amount of interim assistance to be repaid for any month under (c) of this section is

(1) for the first month of SSI eligibility, the amount of the SSI benefit received by the individual for that month, or the product of $280 times the numbers of days of SSI eligibility in the month, divided by the total number of days in the month, whichever is less; and

(2) the amount of the SSI benefit received by the individual for each subsequent month for which interim assistance was received, or $280, whichever is less.

History: Eff. 10/1/93, Register 127; am 1/11/2006, Register 177

Authority: AS 47.05.010

AS 47.25.455

AS 47.25.460

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