Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
Congressional Research Service
Official summary
Version 00 · Introduced in House · Oct 12, 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Access to SSI Work Incentives Title II: Work Incentives Waiver Authority Title III: Amendments to Work Incentives Provisions Title IV: Effective Date Work Incentives Amendments of 1993 - Title I: Access to SSI Work Incentives - Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) of the Social Security Act (SSA) with respect to access to work incentives under SSI for SSI disability benefits (SSDI)-only recipients who lose eligibility for SSDI benefits because of working. Title II: Work Incentives Waiver Authority - Amends SSA titles XIX (Medicaid) and XVI with respect to: (1) the eligibility of certain individuals with disabilities for coverage under Medicaid and community-based care waivers; and (2) work incentives waiver authority. Title III: Amendments to Work Incentives Provisions - Amends SSA title XVI: (1) to disregard the deemed income of an ineligible spouse when determining continued Medicaid eligibility for certain individuals; (2) to provide for continuation of Medicaid for the aged who lose SSI due to excessive earnings; (3) to deem approved self-support plans not disapproved within 30 days; (4) to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a time limit by which activities under a plan for achieving self-support must be completed; (5) to provide for the expansion of self-support plans to include housing goals; and (6) with regard to self-support plans for the aged, additional State supplementation requirements, treatment of unemployment compensation, workers' compensation, and sick pay as earned income for SSI purposes, treatment of certain grant, scholarship, or fellowship income as earned income for SSI purposes, and SSI eligibility for students temporarily abroad. Amends SSA title XIX to provide for the exclusion of income and resources under self-support plans in determining Medicaid eligibility in certain States. Title IV: Effective Date - Sets forth the effective date of this Act.
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