CHAPTER 363

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 68-119 and 68-145, as amended, of the
Code of Virginia, relating to the manner in which the amount of public
assistance shall be determined. 8 219)

Approved March 30, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 63-119 and 63-145, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be
amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 63-119. The amount of assistance which any person shall receive as
aid to the permanently and totally disabled or the amount of assistance
which any person shall receive under provisions of this chapter shall be
determined with due regard to the property and income of the person and
any support which he may or should receive from other sources, including
assistance from persons legally responsible for his support, the necessary
expenditures of the individual and the conditions existing in each case, and
in accordance with rules and regulations made by the State Board, except
that the first fifty dollars earned per month by a person receiving aid to
the blind or eligible to receive such aid shall not be considered in determin-
ing the amount of assistance that any person may receive under this
chapter. It shall be sufficient, when added to all other income and support
of the recipient, to provide such person with a reasonable subsistence.

In making rules and regulations governing the amount of assistance
which any person shall receive under the provisions of this chapter, the
Board shall give due consideration to significant differences in living costs
in the various counties and cities and shall establish or approve such varia-
tions in monetary assistance standards as may be appropriate in order to
achieve the highest practical degree of equity in public assistance grants.
A local board of public welfare may, with the approval of the State Board,
decrease within a maximum of ten per centum any general monetary
standard established by the State Board, provided that the Board shall
not approve any modification that would interfere with, diminish or
jeopardize the State’s entitlement to federal grants for or reimbursement
on public assistance payments under the provisions of this Title.

In the event there is any county or city in which reasonably adequate
housing cannot be secured by all local recipients of assistance under this
chapter within such limits as may be established on a State-wide basis by
rule and regulation of the State Board, the said Board may establish a
higher amount or limit for rent and other housing cost for use in deter-
mining assistance payments in such county or city, and that part of any
assistance grant which is the equivalent of the allowance for rent and other
housing cost in excess of the State-wide maximum allowance may be paid
from local funds without State reimbursement.

§ 63-145. The amount of aid which any dependent child shall receive
shall be determined with due regard to the property and income of such
child and any support which he may or should receive from other sources,
including assistance from persons legally responsible for his support, the
necessary expenditures of or for such child and the conditions existing in
each case, and in accordance with rules and regulations made by the State
Board, except that the first fifty dollars earned per month by a person
receiving aid to the blind or eligible to receive such aid shall not be con-
sidered in determining the amount of aid that any person may receive
under this chapter. It shall be sufficient, when added to all other income
onl support of such child, to provide such child with a reasonable sub-
sistence.

In making rules and regulations governing the amount of assistance
which any person shall receive under the provisions of this chapter, the
Board shall give due consideration to significant differences in living costs
in the various counties and cities and shall establish or approve such
variations in monetary assistance standards as may be appropriate in order
to achieve the highest practical degree of equity in public assistance grants.
A local board of public welfare may, with the approval of the State Board,
decrease within a maximum of ten percentum any general monetary
standard established by the State Board, provided that the Board shall not
approve any modification that would interfere with, diminish or jeopardize
the State’s entitlement to federal grants for or reembursement on public
assistance payments under the provisions of this Title.

In the event there is any county or city in which reasonably adequate
housing cannot be secured by all local recipients of assistance under this
chapter within such limits as may be established on a State-wide basis by
rule and regulation of the State Board the said Board may establish a
higher amount or limit for rent and other housing cost for use in deter-
mining assistance payments in such county or city, and that part of any
assistance grant which is the equivalent of the allowance for rent and other
housing cost in excess of the State-wide maximum allowance may be paid
from local funds without State reimbursement.