The State Disability Assistance (SDA) program provides cash assistance to disabled adults to help them pay for living expenses such as rent, heat, utilities, clothing, food and personal care items. A person is considered disabled for SDA purposes if he/she:

• receives certain other disability-related benefits (such as Medicaid based on disability or blindness), or
• resides in a special facility (such as a licensed Adult Foster Care Home), or
• is certified by DHS medical consultants as unable to work due to a mental or physical disability for at least 90 days.

SDA may also be provided to the caretaker of a disabled person or to a person age 65 or older. An SDA group can be either a single person or spouses who live together.