Supplemental Security Income Restoration Act of 2026
This bill makes multiple changes to Supplemental Security Income (SSI), a federal program providing cash assistance to elderly, blind, and disabled individuals with limited income and resources. It raises eligibility thresholds and benefit amounts, excludes retirement accounts from resource limits, removes penalties for selling resources below fair market value, and treats in-kind support differently than current law. The bill also clarifies how state tax credits are treated, excludes tribal welfare payments from income calculations, eliminates dedicated account requirements for past-due benefits, removes installment payment requirements, extends exclusion periods for certain payments, and modifies how marital relationships are determined for eligibility purposes. Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) sponsors the bill, which has 34 cosponsors.
What’s in the bill (11 sections)
- Sec. 2. Update in eligibility for the supplemental security income
- Sec. 3. Update in supplemental security income benefit amounts and
- Sec. 4. Support and maintenance furnished in kind not included as
- Sec. 5. Exclusion of retirement accounts from resources
- Sec. 6. Repeal of penalty for disposal of resources for less than fair
- Sec. 7. Clarifying the treatment of certain state tax credits
- Sec. 8. Treatment of tribal general welfare payments
- Sec. 9. Elimination of dedicated accounts for certain past-due
- Sec. 10. Elimination of installment payment requirement
- Sec. 11. Extension of period of exclusion of certain payments from
- Sec. 12. Modification of rules to determine marital relationships
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