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Senate Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
Senate of Pennsylvania
Session of 2013 - 2014
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | September 16, 2014 02:12 PM |
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| From: | Senator Patrick M. Browne |
| To: | All Senate members |
| Subject: | State Supplemental Payments for Out-of-State Payors |
| In the near future, I intend to introduce legislation that would allow the Pennsylvania Treasury Department (Treasury) to process other state’s State Supplemental Payments (SSP) for eligible participants who are also receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments from the Social Security Administration (SSA). This program will generate millions of dollars annually for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by having Treasury process other state’s monthly SSP payments. Similarly, states currently using the SSA to process their SSP payments will save their constituents millions of dollars annually by contracting with the Commonwealth to process these payments on their behalf, providing these states with a cost effective alternative to the SSA. Specifically, my legislation would give Treasury the legal authority to enter into contractual arrangements with other states to process their SSP payments. It establishes a restricted account in the General Fund known as the SSP Processing Account for the deposit of revenue from out-of-state payors. On July 31st of each year, all monies in this account which have not been appropriated by the General Assembly to Treasury to cover its contractual and departmental costs for the administration of this program will be transferred to the General Fund. |
Introduced as SB1504