If you are a parent or any other kind of SSI representative payee, you must use the monthly payment for the best interests of its recipient. Some SSI beneficiaries, such as disabled children, need a representative payee to handle their benefit payments on their behalf. Spending Your Child’s SSI Benefits – Representative Payee It is best to keep your luxury spending to a minimum. An exception, however, is if you are living with your spouse.Īll in all, the wise way to use your SSI benefits is to spend it on essentials such as food, home, healthcare, and other living expenses. If someone else, such as a relative, is shouldering your household payments, it could be considered an increase in your resources. These bills are typically shared by the members of the household, but you must keep paying your correct share to avoid the SSA reducing your SSI check. Saving some money could also result in this, so if you have savings, make sure you remain below the resource limit.Īnother aspect to watch is your payment for household expenses like rent, utilities, and mortgage. For example, purchasing luxury items is not prohibited, but it can increase your assets and may push your resources past the limit. What does this mean for your spending? While you can use your SSI benefits for virtually anything that’s legal, you must be wary of using the money in ways that can increase your resources. (See this page on the SSA website with a spotlight on SSI resources.) To stay eligible for SSI benefits, your countable resources must not exceed $2,000 if you are single or $3,000 if you are married. Countable resources are things that you own such as money, property, stocks, and bank accounts that are counted under the program.
The Social Security Administration (SSA) looks into the “countable resources” of each SSI recipient to ensure that they are within the program’s limits. Spending Your Benefits Without Exceeding SSI Limits On the other hand, if you are a representative payee, there are spending rules you must follow. If you are a direct recipient of SSI benefits, there is technically no limit to what you can use the money for, but it is important to watch how your spending affects your income. Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is a needs-based program for low-income recipients, so it’s reasonable to ask what the monthly check could be spent on. On the flip side, most (all?) sit down restaurants I've been to are covered.ĮDIT: I just came to realize this was referring to express comps and not resort credit, so express comps can definitely be used in the places I listed because any room charge can have express comps applied to them from what I recall.What Your Supplemental Security Income Check Can Be Used For Separate from that I think hosts have the ability to comp things that the resort credit can't cover. I agree that almost all of my room charges at the NYNY shops in the back seem to always been covered (such as the FroYo place or the deli place). But I also had a room charge from a quick service pizza place at MGM that got covered. I learned that the hard way from a few room charges in the past. I know for a fact that many room charges from chain/franchised based casual dining (food court or counter ordering style) are NOT covered. I may try doing it again at NYNY next week to see if that one shows up.
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in Jan Starbucks in MGM wasn't (it appeared on my TV folio, but my host ultimately comped it). In the past, Starbucks at NYNY was covered. This place is great for a quick sweet snack, or to grab some prepackaged sweets to go.Īny and All help would be a great addition to these boards! Hit or miss, you will have to askĭirect places I have used Express Comps in the past, that do not necessarily fall under any of the above buckets:Īria or Bellagio Patisserie.
Any food courts?Īll of the small dining places in New York New York NOTE, can anyone say how many quick service places you can use Express Comps at? I have heard Starbucks, but did not confirm. Most sit down meals at restaurants inside the resort. NOTE, can anyone confirm you can no longer use Express Comps to also get things from the spa, such as toiletries and towels to take home. Or, can you use them for attractions, such as Shark Reef ETC? NOTE, can anyone confirm that you can use your express comps at limited show, such as when headliners perform limited engagements.
Think Cirque, Carrot Top, Australian Bee Gees ETC Tickets for house shows at any MGM owned casino. But do share where you DO know you can use them. I will edit this original post, with updates on just where, exactly, you can use your Express Comps in Las Vegas. We should have the best of the best Vegas Hooligans in this forum.