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What is the difference between the Title II Social Security Disability program , and the Title XVI Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program ?
Title II provides benefits for disabled individuals and their dependents who have contributed the necessary amount of FICA taxes into the Social Security trust fund.
Title
XVI (SSI) provides minimal income to the disabled individual.
It may provice benefits for elderly individuals (over age 65) who
are in
dire financial need, or children (under age 18) who are disabled. Title XVI looks to the income and assets
of your household in determining
entitlement. A person need never to have worked to be eligible to
SSI, but he/she must meet the same disability definition as that for
Title
II.
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