CHAPTER 92

An Act to amend and reenact § 68-188, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to the determination of amount o f public assistance
certain persons may receive. [H 8]

Approved February 25, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 63-183, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 63-1838. The amount of aid which any blind person shall receive
shall be determined with due regard to the property and income of the blind
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 conditions existing in each
case, and in accordance with the rules and regulations made by the Com-
mission, except that in making such determination the first eighty-five
dollars per month of earned income plus one-half of earned income in
excess of eighty-five dollars per month shall be disregarded; there shall
also be disregarded in making such determination, for a period not in ex-
cess of twelve months, such additional amounts of other income and re-
sources, in the case of an individual who has a plan for achieving self-
support approved by the Commission, as may be necessary for the fulfill-
ment of such plan. The determination of need shall also be in accordance
with rules and regulations made by the Commission and shall be sufficient,
when added to all other income and support of the recipient to provide such
blind person with a reasonable subsistence.

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 Commission, the said Commission 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.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.