03/13/2025
Information Memo
Effective January 2025, the Integrated Eligibility System (IES) performed an update to reflect the 2025 Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) for Social Security benefits.
As part of the COLA update, the 2025 Supportive Living Program (SLP) room and board amount and the 2025 Medicare premium will be updated on the facility page for LTC cases. Eligibility will run to update the group care credit for 1/2025 and a 360C will be generated.
A COLA exclusion is applied for non LTC TOAs until the 2025 federal poverty level (FPL) has been updated. The COLA exclusion is the 2025 income subtracted from the 2024 income. The exclusion is added because the income was increased by COLA but the FPL limits have not been updated yet. This only applies to Social Security benefits.
[signed copy on file]
Dulce Quintero
Secretary, Illinois Department of Human Services
Elizabeth M. Whitehorn
Director, Healthcare and Family Services
