§ 16-148. Recipients of SSI.

All applicants who receive general assistance while receipt of their supplemental security income (SSI) assistance is pending or suspended, and which therefore may be retroactively issued to the applicant at a later date, will be required to sign a statement on an interim assistance agreement form distributed by the department of human services that authorizes the social security administration to direct a portion of any retroactive SSI payment to the municipality and/or the state in repayment for the general assistance granted. Any general assistance applicant who has applied for or who may be applying for SSI, or who may be required to apply for SSI pursuant to 22 M.R.S.A. § 4317, and who refuses to sign the interim agreement SSI authorization form, will be found ineligible to receive general assistance until he provides the required signature (22 M.R.S.A. § 4318).

(Ord. of 10-18-93, art. VIII; Ord. of 11-18-96, art. VIII)