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SSI Children: Multiple Factors Affect Families' Costs for Disability-Related Services

HEHS-99-99 Published: Jun 28, 1999. Publicly Released: Jun 28, 1999.
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Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on the factors affecting families' costs for disability-related services, focusing on: (1) the disability-related expenses incurred by families of children on Supplemental Security Income (SSI) that are not covered by federal, state, and local programs serving children with disabilities and the factors that influence the level of such costs; and (2) factors affecting families' receipt of disability-related services from programs.

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Children with disabilitiesDisability benefitsDisadvantaged personsHealth care costsHealth care programsHealth care servicesIncome maintenance programsMedicaidSocial security benefitsState-administered programsSurveysSupplemental security income