34-B M.R.S. §1215: Interim assistance payments

The department shall establish and maintain a nonlapsing revolving fund to provide interim assistance payments to Supplemental Security Income recipients:

1. Benefits for hospitalization. Whose benefits have been terminated while they were hospitalized and who are reapplying for benefits because of their release from the hospital; or

2. Benefits when no longer able to work. Whose benefits have been terminated because they returned to work and who are reapplying for benefits because they have suffered a relapse and are no longer able to work.

These benefits shall be provided until their Supplemental Security Income application has been acted on. The fund shall be reimbursed, pursuant to Title 22, section 3174‑E, for interim assistance payments made under this section.