2017 SSI and Spousal Impoverishment Standards
Guidance for : This CMCS informational bulletin is to provide an update on the 2017 Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Spousal Impoverishment Standards. Certain Medicaid income and resource standards are adjusted beginning each January in accordance with changes in the SSI federal benefit rate (FBR) and the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Issue Date: December 02, 2016
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