Beneficiaries Receiving Specific Amounts of BPAO Service
 

Persons Receiving Intensive Benefit Support

In terms of the total service time received by intensive benefit support individuals in the program, overall, SSI recipients were the most likely of the three groups to receive less than one hour of service, with a mean of 3.3 hours, while concurrent SSI/SSDI beneficiaries were the least likely to receive less than one hour of service, with a mean of 4.2 hours. SSDI beneficiaries received, on average, 3.6 service hours.

Percentage of Beneficiaries Receiving
Specific Amounts of BPAO Service
Service Time per Beneficiary SSI
(N=6544)		 SSDI
(N=11,186)		 Concurrent
(N=4418)
Less than 1 hour
12.2
9.7
8.4
1 hour
18.1
17.7
15.4
2 hours
23.2
23.2
22.3
3 hours
17.3
16.7
15.7
4 hours
8.9
9.9
10.0
5 - 9 hours
14.9
16.6
18.3
More than 10 hours
5.4
6.1
10.0
VCU Benefits Assistance Resource Center
Preliminary Draft - Subject to Further Verification
March 31, 2003