A Guide to Fiscal Year 1991 Federal Funding for HIV Disease: How Dollars are Spent How to Access Them

programs. The primary purpose of this sequential
process is to provide a nationally consistent approach
to evaluating and adjudicating disability claims. The
most recent revision of the guidelines for adjudicators
provides more specific criteria for evaluating symptomatic HIV infection claims and should ensure equal
and fair treatment to all claimants regardless of age,
gender, ethnic background, socioeconomic group, or
risk factors.
The SSDI portion of SSA's FY '91 appropriated
HIV budget is $250,000,000.
Supplemental Security Income
Eligibility for Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
disability benefits due to AIDS or symptomatic HIV
infection follow the same definition of disability as
for the SSDI program. Disability is the inability to
engage in any substantial gainful activity because of
a medically determinable impairment that can be
expected to result in death, or has lasted or can be
expected to last for a continuous period not less than
12 months.
Unlike SSDI, SSI eligibility requires the applicant
to meet specific income and resource requirements

in addition to being found disabled. However, there
is no waiting period to receive SSI benefits.
In FY '90, SSA projected that SSI AIDS recipients
would be: approximately 2% of the disabled applications; under one-half% of the SSI recipient population; and about one-half% of the Federal program
cost to the disabled.
In FY '91, monies appropriated for HIV out of the
SSI budget are $55,000,000.
For more information related to SSA's HIV-related
programs and benefits contact your local or state SSA
office, listed in your local telephone directory, the
regional SSA offices listed in Appendix D, or:
Social Security Administration
Office of Disability
Medical Relations Branch
2040 Security West Building
1500 Woodlawn Dr.
Baltimore, MD 21241
1-800/2345-SSA

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