Effective January 2009, Social Security Benefits and SSI payments increased by 5.8 percent. The base level Medicare Part B Premium remains at $96.40. The Medicare Part B Penalty Premium remains the same. This Field Operations Memo explains how BEACON will update clients with the 2009 Social Security/SSI COLA amounts and recalculated eligibility for the active cases containing the updated clients;explains which cases listed on the “Clients With RSDI and/or SSI” view require case manager action; and transmits procedures for case managers to update cases with discrepant 2009 Social Security/SSI COLA amounts.