COVID-19-related financial assistance and SSI

Social Security provided instructions to local field office personnel about the effect of COVID-19-related financial assistance on SSI income and resources.  You can find this emergency message online at: 
https://secure.ssa.gov/apps10/reference.nsf/links/07232021123646PM

The emergency message includes a helpful quick reference chart with all of the different types of COVID related financial assistance an SSI recipient might receive with instructions about how that assistance should be treated during income and resource determinations in the SSI program.