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Show Supplemental incom e program readied i additional information about the program from social security se-curity and the Division of Family Fam-ily Services." For moro information call or write the Cedar City Social Security Office, P. O. Box 709, Cedar City, 81720. The telephone tele-phone number Is 5SG G537. State and Federal agencies are working together on the supplemental security income program that starts making payments in January to people with little or no income, who are 65 or over, or blind or disabled. dis-abled. The program is "a Federal-State Federal-State partnership with each partner doing what it can do best," according to Ralph Moon, manager of the Cedar City So cial Security Office. Moon said, the Federal program pro-gram will "cooperate with State and local public assistance programs to establish the Nation's Na-tion's first uniform income floor for people in need who are 65 or over, or blind, or disabled." Social Security and the Utah Division of Family Services are working together so the new payment system will get off to a smooth start in January, they said. "People getting state assistance assist-ance payments in December hecause they're 65 or over, or bli.-.d, or disabled generally will continue to get payments in January." Moon said. "They don't have to apply." "Their combined State and Federal assistance payments in January will be at least as much as their state assistance payments were in December," he said. "They will also be eligible for Medicaid." Medicaid, vocalonal rehabilitation rehab-ilitation for disabled people, and other social services such as child care, family counseling, counsel-ing, etc. will be administered by the Utah Division of Family Fam-ily Services. The Social Security Administration Admini-stration will determine eligibility eligi-bility for supplemental security income, make the Federal payments, pay-ments, keep records, and work to prevent fraud, according to Moon. The amount of the supplemental supple-mental security Income checks people get will depend on other income they might have. "People "Peo-ple with no other income at all will have a basic cash income of at least $130 a month for one person and 195 for a ample," J:e said. "People with other income in-come may get reduced supplemental supple-mental security income checks." Although the supplemental security income program will be administered by the Social Security Administration, payments pay-ments will be financed by Federal Fed-eral general tax revenues not by social security contributions contribu-tions from workers and employers, employ-ers, Moon said. Social security offices are taking applications from people peo-ple who are 65 or over, or blind, or disabled and aren't getting public assistance but who think they might be eligible for supplemental sup-plemental security income payments. pay-ments. "People setting State or local lo-cal assistance don't have to do anything about supplemental security income. They'll ge |