Generally the system will generate an award or post-entitlement notice with the correct alien eligibility language, except in the situations list below.

Issue the eligibility letter in SI 00502.450 to an SSI recipient when you:

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  first determine that a recipient currently in current pay status (C01) is a U.S. citizen or national, or an eligible alien per SI 00502.100, and will remain in C01 pay status, or

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  determine that an alien previously determined eligible under SI 00502.100 has changed their status to U.S. citizen or to another eligible alien category or status, and the individual's payment status code remains the same.

The system will not generate an automated notice in the above two situations.

If you must suppress the automated award notice to an alien, or you are effectuating a favorable decision on an appeal, then include the alien eligibility paragraphs in SI 00502.460 in the manual notice, along with other appropriate paragraphs.

Generally the system will generate a denial or suspension notice. If you must send a manual notice, use the language in SI 00502.470.

When an aged alien who must be found blind or disabled to be an “eligible alien” (SI 00502.142) is medically denied, always prepare a manual SSA-L8030, Notice of Disapproved Claim. This notice is on the Field Office Notice Software (FONS). The DDS will prepare and send to the FO an attachment for the denial notice called “Information About the Disability Decision” along with the folder. FO staff will include the attachment with the SSA-L8030 when it is mailed to the claimant. See SI 00502.470 for notice language explaining the attachment. In SI 00502.470, the notice language is under fill-in 4, choice 1.