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A special needs trust can provide crucial financial support without jeopardizing your SSI benefits. By setting up this type of trust, you can ensure that your loved one maintains eligibility for SSI while still receiving additional resources. This arrangement allows for flexible spending on needs not covered by SSI, such as medical expenses or education. For more detailed special needs trust information for SSI, consider exploring resources from UsLegalForms, where you can find expert guidance and necessary legal documents.
Money paid directly to you from the trust reduces your SSI benefit. Money paid directly to someone to provide you with food or shelter reduces your SSI benefit but only up to a certain limit.
It cannot be paid to a trust. If you are receiving Social Security by direct deposit, you should leave the account that receives the payments outside of your trust.
A Special Needs Trust must have its own Federal Identification Number (also called an Employer Identification Number, EIN, Tax Identification Number, or TIN) to be valid. This unique number means that the Trust is its own entity, and that it does not belong to anyone but itself.
An SNT provides for the needs of a person with a disability without losing or reducing their benefits such as Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Medi-Cal, In-Home Support Services (IHSS), and HUD housing assistance. Assets in an SNT won't be counted toward the SSI, Medi-Cal and IHSS asset limits.
The trustee works in very close contact with the beneficiary and/or their caregiver to manage the trust and its financial distributions to pay for these things. The main takeaway regarding distribution of SNT funds is this: The beneficiary never sees the money directly, but the money is used to pay for their needs.