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*«=ucrai government makes monthly supplemental security income (SSI) payments to people who are 65 or older, or blind, or disabled and who do not have much income and do not own much property.

The idea of SSI is to provide monthly checks when they are needed so that eligible people can have a basic cash income—$208.20 for one person and $312.30 for a married couple. This does not mean that every eligible gets this much in his or her SSI check every month. Some people get less because they have other income and some get more because they live in a state that adds money to the federal payment. A home does not count against a person’s eligibility and the federal government

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