Subject: Aged, Blind, Disabled (ABD)

ABD Overview
Aged, Blind, or Disabled individuals may be eligible for various programs and benefits.

UpdatedSSI-Criteria State Policy FAQs
Answers to frequently asked questions concerning ABD applicant’s income, resources, irrevocable prepaid burial policies, household composition, and other topics.

SSI-Criteria State & State Supplemental Payment (SSP)
Answers to frequently asked questions concerning income for State Supplemental Payment eligibility.
Additional Training: Aged, Blind, Disabled (ABD)
Training Articles
- UpdatedABLE Accounts
- NewAbsence from the Home: Temporary vs Permanent
- Application Process
- Applications – ABD Related & SSA Appeal
- Applications – SSP & Medical Pending Social Security Decision
- Auto-Renewal Process
- BENDEX Income Codes
- BENDEX Payment Status Codes
- BENDEX State Codes
- BIL: Buy-In History Inquiry
- BIL: Buy-In History Inquiry Transaction Codes
- Buy-In – How Does the Buy-in Work?
- Buy-In – What is Buy-In?
- Buy-In – Medicare Buy-in Problems and Solutions
- Categorical Relationship
- Categorical Relationship – ABD Eligibility after SSI Closure
- Child Support: Who does it belong to?
- UpdatedCitizenship – Ways to Help Clients Obtain Proof of Citizenship
- UpdatedCitizenship and Identity Verification
- Citizenship and Residence Requirements
- Comparison Chart of Trusts & ABLE Accounts
- UpdatedComputation of Earned Income
- Cost Share Copays for SoonerCare Members
- NewCountable Property
- Creating Cases
- Determining Eligibility of ABD Couples (Short Term Programs)
- UpdatedDetermining Eligibility of Eligible Individual with an Ineligible Spouse
- Determining Income Eligibility
- Divorced / Separated Couples
- Dual Entitlement
- Eligibility for Aliens and FACS Coding
- Federal Employee Retirement Claims
- Fleeing Felons
- G1DX Edit Errors for Medical Cases
- Home Property Exemption and Adjacent Properties
- UpdatedIncome – Mineral Rights
- Income – Adjusting SSI for New or Increased Income
- Income – Social Security COLA and Continued Eligibility
- Income – Adoption Subsidies & Foster Care Payments
- Income – American Indian Income
- Income – Case Note Examples
- Income – Veteran’s Benefits
- Ineligible Minor Child Allocation
- Interview Process
- UpdatedLevel of Care Evaluation Unit (LOCEU)
- UpdatedLife Insurance: Overview
- Marital Status under SSI Criteria
- UpdatedMedicaid Guidance During COVID-19
- Medical Applications & DDS Services
- Medical ID Cards
- Medicare Information
- Mineral Interest Valuations – Ten Quick Tips
- Office of Juvenile Affairs (OJA) Custody and ABD-Related Eligibility
- Pregnancy and Disability-Related Medical
- Premature Infant Medical
- Qualified Individuals – Group 1 (QI-1)
- Qualified Medicare Beneficiary Plus (QMBP)
- Railroad Retirement Claim Numbers
- Resource – Annuities
- Resource – Asset Verification System (AVS)
- Resource – Irrevocable Burial Contract
- Resource – Legal Impediment
- UpdatedResource – Mineral Rights – How to Determine Value
- Resource – Vehicles
- Resource Eligibility
- Resource – Bank Accounts
- Resource- Income Producing Property & 6% / $6000 Rule
- NewSale of Home Proceeds and Insurance Payments & Repairs
- Social Security Claim Numbers
- Social Security Early Retirement and Categorical Relationship
- SoonerCare and Department of Corrections Prisoners
- Special Medical
- Special Needs Trust
- Specified Low Income Medicare Beneficiary (SLMB)
- SSI-Criteria State Blind Working Expenses (BWE) & Impairment Related Work Expenses (IRWE)
- SSI-Criteria State Order of Deductions for Earned Income
- SSI-Criteria State: What is Gross Wages?
- UpdatedSSP Best Practices
- State Data Exchange (SDX) Payment Status Codes
- State Data Exchange (SDX) Recipient Payee Codes
- State Data Exchange (SDX) Resource Codes
- UpdatedState Supplemental Payment (SSP) & ABD Renewals
- State Supplemental Payment (SSP): Who can be eligible?
- TEFRA Application and Criteria
- TEFRA: Overview
- Third-Party Liability (TPL)
- Ticket to Work
- What is TPQYC?
Help & How To's
- Updated$20 General Income Exclusion
- Annual Report: Potential SSP Eligible Cases
- Applications Prior to Age 65 or Start of Medicare
- CID (Calculation for Income Deeming)
- Coding Special Medical
- Companion Coding for Eligible Couple SSP & SNAP
- Correcting Cases for Incorrectly Processed SSP
- Deeming Resources from Parent(s) to Disabled Child
- Disability Due to Death
- How to Access Asset Verification System in FACS
- How to Certify Alien Emergency Medical
- How to Certify QI-1
- How to Certify QMBP
- How to Certify SLMB
- How to Code Child Support 1/3 Deduction for Child with Disability
- How to Code for Eligible Couple (Short Term Medical)
- How to Code for Eligible Couple (State Supplemental Payment)
- How to Code for Eligible Individual with Ineligible Spouse (Short Term Medical)
- How to Code SSP Cases With Guardians or Representatives
- How to Code Third Party Liability (TPL)
- How to Complete the Medical Social Summary (08MA022E)
- How to Consider & Code Child Support for ABD-Related Benefits
- How to Get Approval for Alien Emergency Services
- How to Get Birth Certificates from Other States
- How to Move a Case from Special Medical to SSP
- How to Retro-Certify Short Term Medical (NON SSP)
- How to Retro-Certify the State Supplemental Payment (SSP)
- How to Round SSI and RSDI for Medical
- How to Submit a Health-Related and Medical Services Overpayment
- How to Synchronize ABD Medical and SNAP Benefits.
- How to Use F17C to Issue SSP
- How to Use MMIS
- Income – How to Code Self-Employment (Sole Proprietorship)
- Income Deductions (Eligible Individual with Ineligible Spouse)
- Medical Eligibility and Data Tracking System (MEDATS)
- Medical Retro Certification & Notification of Eligibility
- One Third Reduction Rule
- UpdatedProcess for Closing Medical (Death)
- UpdatedSetting Up Direct Deposit for SSP
- Transferring Money from Special Needs Trust to ABLE Account
- Tuberculosis (TB) Cases