SSI state supplement amounts by state and living arrangement

The federal SSI payment (the Federal Benefit Rate) is one number nationwide, but most states add a State Supplementary Payment on top of it, and that add-on varies by state and by the recipient's living arrangement (independent living, living in the household of another, domiciliary/personal-care home, nursing home, etc.) in a way no single federal page states. SSA administers the federal payment and publishes the FBR; the supplement is set and published separately by each state's own social-services agency, in its own document, on its own schedule, under its own category names. A record here is one state's one living-arrangement category with the FBR, the state supplement amount, and the date the amount took effect. Answers 'how much is the SSI state supplement in Pennsylvania for someone in a personal care boarding home', 'does Michigan add anything to the federal SSI check for domiciliary care and how much', and 'why is my total SSI payment higher than the federal maximum'. Living-arrangement categories differ in name and count from state to state — record the category exactly as the state's own document names it rather than mapping it onto a shared taxonomy, since the mapping itself is where two states' 'domiciliary care' can mean different things.

The data

Where this came from

Every record above links the page it was taken from and quotes the sentence that states it. These are the 3 sources this dataset was assembled from.

• hhs.iowa.govhttps://hhs.iowa.gov/media/3987/download
• mdhhs-pres-prod.michigan.govhttps://mdhhs-pres-prod.michigan.gov/olmweb/ex/RF/Public/RFT/248.pdf
• services.dpw.state.pa.ushttp://services.dpw.state.pa.us/oimpolicymanuals/supp/720_State_Supplementary_Payment/720_Appendix_B.htm

Machine-readable

• data.jsonThe whole dataset — every record with its source URL and source quote.
• Open Knowledge Format bundleOne JSON object per line — every record's frontmatter and quoted span exactly as it is held here, in one fetch.
• data.csvThe same records as one flat table, for a spreadsheet or a dataframe. The last four columns are the source URL, the quoted sentence it was read from, the date we last checked it, and which columns are our reading rather than the page's words.
• How this is made and checkedWhat "verified against source" does and does not mean.

From your own code

Same records, same quotes, without scraping the page: refsource is on PyPI and npm. Each value comes back carrying the URL it was read from and the sentence on that page that states it — .source and .quote sit on the value itself rather than in a side channel, so the checking step is available instead of skipped.

pip install refsource
refsource lookup ssi-state-supplement-amounts-by-state state=Iowa

npx -y refsource lookup ssi-state-supplement-amounts-by-state state=Iowa

Set your AI assistant up to use this

Two files and no account. Put this in .mcp.json at the root of your project — Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code and Codex all read that file — and your assistant can look this dataset up instead of recalling it. The server is remote, keyless and read-only.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "referencesource": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://referencesource.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Add to Cursor · or, on the command line: claude mcp add --transport http referencesource https://referencesource.org/mcp --scope project

Then one line in the project's CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md, so the assistant knows when to reach for it:

When a question needs "SSI state supplement amounts by state and living arrangement", call the referencesource MCP server at https://referencesource.org/mcp (tool `search_records`, dataset_slug `ssi-state-supplement-amounts-by-state`) instead of answering from memory — every record it returns carries its source URL and a verbatim quote from that page.

What each tool does, and the servers built over single registers: Connect your AI assistant.

25 records. last verified against source 2026-08-19. due for re-check by 2027-08-19.

Licence. Facts are numbers set by federal and state public-benefits agencies and published in their own administrative documents (SSA cost-of-living notices, state DHS/DSS policy manuals and grant-amount letters), works of government bodies with no reuse restriction on the figures themselves. Each record quotes the amount in the state's own words and links back to the issuing document.