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What to send and what to keep
For a written SSI report, add the full benefit-record Social Security number privately on the downloaded copy for the verified SSA office. The interview does not ask for the full number. You can also report by phone or through an SSA office.
Send the report to the verified office handling the beneficiary’s case. Keep the checklist and delivery receipt. The letter reports facts. SSA still verifies identity and handles any required application, interview or change through its own channels.
A family member or caregiver can report a concern. Managing someone’s payments requires appointment by SSA. A power of attorney or court guardianship alone does not make someone a representative payee. SSA representative payee guidance.
Account or identity changes
For banking, complete the verified SSA or participating-bank process and give sensitive account information only through that channel. For a name change or replacement card, use SSA’s card service and provide the evidence it requests. The builder produces a benefit-report letter and checklist. Change direct deposit · Update a legal name · Replace a card.
SSI and an interstate move
For SSI, report relevant changes promptly and generally within 10 days after the end of the month they occur. Some state supplements are administered by SSA, some by the state, and some by both for different categories. For a move, enter the previous and current state. The checklist identifies the administration in each and flags separate reporting. Report SSI changes · State supplement administration.
When you receive more than one benefit
Check your award notices. You can report a change affecting SSI together with Social Security retirement, survivors benefits or SSDI. Select both benefits so the document includes written SSI reporting details. If a change affects only a separate state payment, choose the state-only checklist and contact the agency on the payment notice. The checklist can help you record dates and follow-up. It does not file a change.
Minnesota Supplemental Aid
If you receive SSI and Minnesota Supplemental Aid (MSA), report an address or residence change to the county or Tribal agency within 10 days. Report other federal SSI changes to SSA. If you receive MSA Housing Assistance, also report changes to shelter costs or a rent subsidy to the agency within 10 days. Without SSI, check the state reporting duties and any monthly household report required for your income situation. Minnesota law · Minnesota program contacts
Minnesota SSI and retirement address report (PDF)Wisconsin state SSI payments
Contact ForwardHealth Member Services for changes to the Wisconsin SSI payment and SSA for federal SSI. Certain grandfathered recipients receive state SSI without federal SSI. For a county-certified exceptional-expense payment, contact the certifying county about relevant living-arrangement or care changes. For Caretaker Supplement changes, follow the county or Tribal agency process. Wisconsin state and federal contacts · Caretaker Supplement reporting
Wisconsin state payment checklist (Word)Massachusetts and New York state supplement deadlines
For Massachusetts SSP-only payments, report a change affecting eligibility or grant amount to SSP within 10 calendar days of the change. For combined SSI/SSP, report ordinary case changes to SSA. In New York, report changes affecting SSP or the personal needs allowance within 10 calendar days of the change. Combined recipients ordinarily report to SSA. SSP-only recipients report directly to OTDA. Answer any separate agency request by the deadline on the notice. When moving, identify the payment you received in each state and keep the date each office received the change.
Massachusetts SSP regulation · New York state rule and explanation
Massachusetts state-only address checklist (PDF) · New York example involving a federal payee (Word)
Florida OSS and Illinois AABD Cash
Florida Optional State Supplementation recipients must tell DCF about changes affecting eligibility within 10 days of the change. Give the dates of a move or temporary absence from a qualifying residential placement. A 30-consecutive-day absence ends continued OSS eligibility and requires a new application. Florida continued eligibility rule.
For Illinois AABD Cash, IDHS asks clients to tell the caseworker about family, income and resource changes within 10 calendar days. The rule requires notice within 10 working days or before spending funds received, whichever comes first. Someone maintaining a recipient’s funds must also report changes affecting the cash case, including lump sums. Medical assistance has separate requirements. Illinois reporting regulation · IDHS client guide.
Florida state-only placement example (PDF) · Illinois income and survivors benefit example (Word)
District, Delaware and Pennsylvania placements
A District-certified adult foster home may be in another state. Give its physical address and identify the agency certification separately. For a transfer, identify both facilities and dates. District operators and referring agencies use their official procedure for move-in, change or move-out. District program and operator instructions.
Delaware requires state documentation for the residential supplement. For Pennsylvania domiciliary care, promptly notify the Area Agency on Aging. The county assistance office handles placement certification for SSA. State-paid household supplements use the county process. Pennsylvania reporting rule.
Maryland transfer between District-certified facilities PDF · Word.
California youth and nonminor benefit reporting
Record who has placement and care responsibility, the benefit and its actual payee. A tribal request can trigger county screening. Counties screen supervised youth at sixteen or seventeen and apply when likely eligible. A qualifying nonminor must consent to an application. A county seeking to become a child’s payee first gives written notice to the child’s attorney and parents or legal guardians. Separate notices of a county application or of SSA’s decision go to the child, attorney and parents or guardians before or at the time of the action.
The general changes began January 1, 2025. The survivor-fund, notice and transfer provisions under section 13756 became operative June 22, 2025. A county payee or fiduciary conserves the child’s survivor benefits. SSI has separate rules. For a verified nonminor SSI suspension caused by a higher federally funded foster-care payment, the county switches funding for at least one month in every twelve and coordinates reporting with the actual payee. A planned exit to permanency triggers advance work on transfer. A placement change alone does not establish an exit or a new SSA appointment.
California 2026 county screening and payee guidance · California implementing dates and responsibilities
Arizona child benefit applications and payee reviews
Arizona DCS screens a child in its care for Social Security or VA benefits within sixty days of entry. Under the law effective September 12, 2026, DCS applies to serve as payee when the child was already receiving benefits at entry or DCS applies for the child’s benefits. Before that change, the prior law required DCS to seek appointment only when no other suitable candidate was available. SSA decides who serves for an SSA benefit.
After SSA approves DCS as payee, DCS has thirty days to file its search for an appropriate outside payee with the court. It files again at each later report and review hearing or permanency planning hearing. The child or attorney can request consultation. Keep the application, federal decision, hearing, placement and custody exit dates separate. Conserved funds first follow the funding source’s instructions on exit.
Arizona child benefit statute · 2026 Chapter 181 · Arizona effective dates
Nevada child-welfare payee duties
For events from January 1, 2026, the Nevada agency checks eligibility within 60 days of custody entry and annually. It consults the child, parents with intact rights and the child’s attorney before applying as payee when no suitable individual is available. An agency payee accounts for funds at least every six months. A private payee selected under the statute while custody continues provides six-month documentation to the agency. Funding-source directions govern remaining funds first. Record actual custody and the benefit decision separately from the child’s address.
Nevada child-welfare benefits law · Nevada court reporting
Foster-care benefits in Alaska and Kansas
Enter the agency holding custody, the placement and effective dates, the benefit involved and who SSA has appointed as payee. A state agency, caregiver or guardian can propose a payee, but SSA makes the decision. A change letter cannot appoint someone or authorize them to transfer funds.
Alaska preserves foster children’s Social Security survivor benefits in custodial accounts for months beginning December 2025. Older youth can request funds for specific needs that the state cannot meet. Check other benefit types and earlier months separately. The Alaska Supreme Court addressed notice to children, parents with intact parental rights and guardians ad litem in the context of OCS seeking to reimburse itself.
Kansas DCF screens youth in care, gives notice of applications and decisions, seeks another appropriate payee and protects the child’s benefits. If DCF is payee, a placement, adoption stage or release can require a separate report to SSA by the tenth of the next month. The family’s KanCare change instructions follow a separate schedule.
Alaska survivor-benefit policy · Kansas Executive Order 25-01
Kansas institutional cash and medical reporting
Kansas distinguishes the personal funds a nursing facility resident may keep from a supplemental payment to an eligible SSI recipient receiving long-term care. Obtain the actual Medicaid and SSI notices, placement, dates and payer. Check the state institutional arrangement separately from a federally administered grandfathered conversion award. Temporary care, other income, a child placement or a facility in another state can require different steps.
Existing KanCare households report listed changes within ten days of learning of them. Pending applications, changes before the approval notice and mass Social Security adjustments have separate instructions. Contact the KanCare Clearinghouse at 1-800-792-4884 or use the authenticated state portal. Keep separate state and SSA confirmations.
Kansas household change rules · Kansas nursing facility statute
Idaho AABD cash and change reporting
Report changes to Idaho’s Department of Health and Welfare by the tenth of the month following the change. If the department requests proof of continuing eligibility, it allows ten calendar days for that separate step. Report federal benefits changes to SSA. A new Idaho resident who still receives another state’s cash should report when that cash ends. Give DHW dates and reasons for a temporary absence, particularly a child at school or a participant in a hospital or nursing home.
Ordinary AABD cash depends on receiving SSI for the same month. Certified family homes and residential assisted living facilities have different rules from independent living. Ask DHW about Medicaid, provider payments or a protected conversion award if that is what the record shows. Changes to federal direct deposit do not update the state cash account.
Idaho AABD eligibility and change rules · Manage an Idaho cash award
Washington state supplement reporting
Check the office shown on the award. Ordinary Economic Services SSP uses SSA’s State Data Exchange; an ordinary ESA recipient does not file the same SSP change again with ESA. Federal SSI changes go to SSA. A developmental-disability SSP payee has separate duties to notify DDA of eligibility and payee changes. A Title II disabled-adult-child award that alone ended SSI can meet the DDA financial rule when categorically needy Medicaid continues under the special disregard. New DDA enrollments are restricted. DCYF’s foster supplement requires current federal SSI, BRS for part or all of the month and ineligibility for Title IV-E reimbursement.
ESA change reporting · DDA financial and service requirements · DDA payee changes · Foster and other SSP categories
Montana custody and certified care
SSA administers Montana’s optional certified-care payments. Some people under continuing Montana legal custody may qualify while living outside the state. Give the placing office and SSA the placement and change dates and request current certification. A county or state worker supplies the agency certification. SSA’s Montana instructions.
State law excludes residents of category B assisted living facilities from the optional payments described in MCA 52-1-104. A facility can hold more than one license category. Have the state verify the license and actual placement. A custody order does not decide the SSA representative payee. Montana supplementary payment statute.
A converted December 1973 mandatory minimum is separate. A full calendar month of nonresidence in the conversion state can suspend it even where retained custody may support an optional payment. Obtain both notices if applicable. SSA eligibility and suspension rules.
Protected 1973 minimum payments
Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee have no optional SSI supplement. SSA still administers a protected minimum for some people converted from these states’ December 1973 assistance rolls. Use the SSA notice even if the payment has no federal SSI component. Age and the reporter’s address do not establish an award.
Report actual residence, absence and return dates. A full calendar month of nonresidence suspends the protected payment and minimum income level. Entering federal living arrangement D after conversion in a different arrangement also suspends protection. An unrelated facility visit alone does not establish D. Tell SSA about a death or loss of categorical eligibility. SSA eligibility, suspension and termination.
SSA’s 2026 table reports no optional program or recipients receiving a mandatory minimum in Arizona or North Dakota. West Virginia has neither program. A prior conversion state or a payment from another agency can still matter. SSA annual report, Table III.H1.
Maryland PAA case changes
If you receive Maryland Public Assistance to Adults, report changes to your local department within 10 days of the change. Keep the case number, a copy of your signed report and confirmation. Report separately to Social Security when federal rules require it.
Record the actual placement, where the recipient now lives and any intent to return. The local department checks whether an absence is temporary after 30 consecutive days and monthly afterward. A federal representative payee and a Maryland protective payee require separate authority. A confirmed Maryland mandatory minimum supplement for a 1973 converted recipient is administered by SSA. An individual who also participates in PAA can have two different reporting offices.
Colorado county cash assistance changes
For a certified Adult Financial grant, report and provide verification to the county by the 10th of the month after the change. You can report in person, by phone, in writing or electronically. If you mail the report, keep evidence of the postmark. A federal report does not establish that the county has verified the change.
Identify the actual Old Age Pension, AND-State Only, AND-Colorado Supplement or Home Care Allowance case. A move between Colorado counties, temporary out-of-state medical treatment, a hospital stay, and a permanent move raise different questions. Burial assistance requires its own county application.
Connecticut State Supplement cash changes
Report to DSS online through ConneCT, by phone or in person. For a changed answer on a State Supplement application or eligibility redetermination, the 10-day clock runs from the change. A separate 10-day clock applies to covered persons who learn of or receive new property, wages, income or resources. A federal SSI report does not notify DSS.
If a licensed residential care home or rated housing facility remains the person’s residence, ask about bed availability and expected return before the end of the month following departure. The facility rule does not establish entitlement to an individual federal payment. Ask DSS about required consent before disposing of property covered by the statute.
Connecticut reporting statute · Residential facility payment law · DSS reporting channels
Alaska Adult Public Assistance changes
From the date someone applies, the applicant or a person acting for them must report a change that could affect Alaska eligibility or payment to DPA within 10 days of the change. This clock is separate from the federal SSI reporting period. Alaska takes reports in person, by phone, by mail or through Alaska Connect.
A departure can be reportable even for a short trip. Alaska has specific rules for treatment, study and illness that delays return. Report actual dates and decisions to DPA. Bank location alone does not establish residence.
Alaska reporting rule · Alaska APA and change-reporting portal
Rhode Island reporting deadlines
Combined SSI and SSP recipients report changes to SSA. If you receive only the Rhode Island state supplementary payment, report income, resource and living-arrangement changes directly to Rhode Island DHS within 10 calendar days of the change. Rhode Island reporting rule.
Actual state-program case examples
Identify the program on the actual award or agency case. Residence alone does not establish that program, and a move can require separate reports to former and current agencies. These fictional examples show their own facts; they do not submit an agency report or decide eligibility.
The current default download is the North Carolina Special Assistance In-Home example: NC SAIH example PDF · NC SAIH example Word. It is not an Indiana or general SSI example.
Examples
Preview the files before entering personal information. Virginia SSI address report (PDF) · Virginia report (Word) · Illinois-to-Texas move (PDF). The wizard also has examples for each reporting topic in all 50 states and D.C.