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Marital Status under SSI Criteria

Last Updated August 21, 2025

SSI Criteria and Marital Status

Subject: Aged, Blind, Disabled (ABD) Topics: ABD, aged spouse, annulment, blind spouse, Common Law Marriage, disabled spouse, Divorce, ineligible spouse, Marital Status, recipient type, SDX, separation, SSI, SSI Criteria, supplemental security income, unmarried couple

How to Treat Separated and Divorced Couples for Eligibility Purposes

Last Updated August 12, 2026

Divorced people are treated as individuals while separated people are treated as a couple

Subject: Aged, Blind, Disabled (ABD) Topics: ABD, Aged, Blind, Common Law Marriage, countable, Couple, Disabled, divorced, Eligibility, Income, living together, Resources, separated