A bill to make permanent the existing temporary provision for disregarding income of social security and railroad retirement recipients in determining their need for public assistance and to provide that no individual presently eligible for medical assistance under a State plan approved under title XIX of the Social Security Act shall lose such eligibility by reason of the recent 20-percent increase in social security benefits.

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States that any individual who, for the month of September 1972, was determined to be eligible for medical assistance under a State plan approved under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act and who for such month was entitled to monthly insurance benefits under title II (Old-Age, Survivors' and Disability Insurance) of such Act shall be deemed to be eligible for such assistance for any month thereafter if and to the same extent as such individual would have been eligible for such assistance for such month had the increase in monthly insurance benefits under title II of such Act resulting from the enactment of Public Law 92-336 not been applicable to such individual.

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  summary · EN · 3 January 1973

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