CSS Profile - SSI and Medicaid question

Paying for College
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I got a message for this question “At any time during 2015 or 2016 did either of the student’s parents receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or Medicaid?”

And this is the message they gave me “In Registration question 16, you reported that your parents received Supplemental Security Income (SSI), but their cash, savings, checking, and the equity in their investments appears to exceed the maximum allowed for SSI benefits. Please review your responses to Registration question 16 and PROFILE Help Codes PA-100 and PA-120 and correct as appropriate.”

This is the other message I got “In Registration question 16, you reported that your parents received Supplemental Security Income (SSI) during one of the last two years; however, you did not report the amount that they received during the last year. Please review your responses to registration question 16 and PROFILE Help Code PI-165 to confirm that you have answered these questions correctly.”

So my parents didn’t/don’t receive any SSI but we have insurance and is that not medicaid? I only put yes because of the medicaid part. My parents have MetroPlus insurance by the way.

Also, is it allowed for me to submit my CSS even with those messages being shown there?

Thank you.

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Not necessarily. Medicaid is government health care for low income people. Medicare is the more common government health insurance for senior citizens (65+). Then there’s just regular old health insurance that’s neither of the above, which comes in many different flavors.

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Medicaid is usually medical insirance for very low or no income families. It doesn’t sound like that is the case with you.

You will need to contact the colleges to find out how to correct this…because you can’t correct the Profile online.

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MetroPlus seems to be a health insurance coordinator that brings in a lot of programs like medicaid, children’s health care, some medicare. You’d have to know why your parents are eligible, and if it is because of medicare, they may not be low income. You can also sometimes qualify for medicaid for other reasons. My daughter had it when she was born because of her birth weight without regard to my income.