212 - Responsibility; financing.
§ 212. Responsibility; financing. 1. Unless there is in effect an agreement for federal administration of additional state payments pursuant to section two hundred eleven of this title, each social services district shall be responsible for providing such payments to persons who are receiving or who would but for their income be eligible to receive, supplemental security income benefits, and who reside or are found in such district, subject to supervision by the state and subject to full reimbursement by the state of such payments made by such district. The social services districts shall also be responsible for the administration of the state's program of additional state payments, subject to reimbursement by the state in an amount equal to one-half the cost of such administration and shall: (a) accept applications for additional state payments, (b) determine eligibility in accordance with this title and the regulations of the department, (c) determine the amount of the federal supplemental security income benefit and other countable income, and issue a grant which when added to such benefit and income will equal such individual's standard of need, and (d) thereafter recertify eligibility periodically as the department may require. 2. If there is in effect an agreement for the federal administration of additional state payments, the state shall be responsible for paying to the secretary an amount equal to: (a) the amount expended under the state's programs of old age assistance, assistance to the blind and aid to the disabled during the calendar year, nineteen hundred seventy-two, less any federal funds properly received on account of such expenditures; plus (b) any amounts in addition to such sum as may be required by the agreement.