Some benefits after returning to U.S.A - Page 6

 



If he is age 65 or more, he might qualify for SSI - see
http://www.ssa.gov/ssi/text-eligibility-ussi.htm

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But SSI - Supplemental Security Income - is not Social Security benefits.
It reads more like a welfare program rather than a pension program.  Read
the criteria for SSI:

Income criteria http://www.ssa.gov/ssi/text-income-ussi.htm
  Countable income no more than SSI Federal Benefit rate
  The SSI Federal Benefit rate currently (2010) is
http://www.ssa.gov/ssi/text-benefits-ussi.htm
    $674 per month for an individual
    $1,011 per month for a couple

Resource criteria http://www.ssa.gov/ssi/text-resources-ussi.htm
  Countable assets no more that $2,000 for individual, $3,000 for couple

If I understand the presented explanation, if you have zero countable income
the SSI Federal Benefit rate is the maximum benefit you can receive given
you meet the resource criteria.  That is something, which is hands down
better than nothing, but not one heck of a lot of something.