7 AAC 40.380 - Payments
(a) Payment for assistance under this chapter
to an eligible applicant who meets the eligibility requirements under this
chapter, including, if applicable, eligibility for SSI benefits, on the date
that a district office of the division receives the applicant's identifiable
application as described in
7 AAC 40.070(a) begins on the date that
the identifiable application is received by the division.
(b) Unless an applicant is eligible for
payment under (a) of this section, payment for assistance under this chapter to
an eligible applicant who is also eligible for SSI begins on the first day of
the month after the Social Security Administration issues written notification
to the applicant that SSI benefits are approved.
(c) Unless an applicant is eligible for
payment under (a) of this section, payment for assistance under this chapter to
an eligible applicant who is not also eligible for SSI begins on the earliest
of the following dates:
(1) the first day of
the month after the Social Security Administration issues written notification
to the applicant that Social Security benefits provided under
42 U.S.C.
401 -
433 (Title II of the Social
Security Act) are approved;
(2) the
first day of the month after the division of vocational rehabilitation of the
Department of Labor and Workforce Development issues written notification to
the division that the applicant meets the definition of disability in
42 U.S.C.
1382 c(a)(3) (Title XVI of the Social
Security Act).
(d) If
the beginning date of assistance to an applicant described in (a) of this
section is not the first day of the month, the division will prorate the first
month's payment. To prorate, the division will calculate and round the payment
as if the applicant were entitled to a full month's benefit and will then
multiply the full month's payment amount by the number of days remaining in the
month, including the day determined under (a) of this section, and divide the
product by the total number of days in the month.
(e) In calculating the payment amount under
(d) of this section, the division will carry cents throughout the calculation,
but will round down from $.99 in establishing the payment.
(f) Assistance payments are made on a monthly
basis, by state warrant or by means of electronic transfer of money to the
financial account designated by the recipient or to the recipient's electronic
benefit transfer (EBT) account with the state's financial EBT agent.
(g) Assistance payments are made without any
restrictions on how they may be used.
(h) Notwithstanding (c) of this section,
payment for assistance under this chapter to an eligible applicant who applied
for assistance before July 1, 2004, and who either is not also eligible for SSI
or, although eligible for SSI, did not receive interim assistance under
7 AAC 40.375, begins on the latest of the following
dates:
(1) date that a district office of the
division receives the applicant's identifiable application as described in
7 AAC 40.070(a);
(2) the date that the applicant first meets
the eligibility requirements under this chapter; or
(3) if applicable, the date of the beginning
of SSI payment.
Notes
Authority:AS 47.05.010
AS 47.25.460
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