CHAPTER 456
An Act to amend and reenact § 68-145, as amended, of the Code of Vir-

gina, relating to the determination of the amount of public assistance
which certain persons may receive.
[H 808]

Approved April 1, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
That § 63-145, ag amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
Teenacted as follows:
63-145. The amount of aid which any dependent child shall receive

shall be determined with dno racard ta the provertv 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 eighty-five dollars earned per month by a
person receiving aid to the blind or eligible to receive such aid plus one-
half of earned income in excess of eighty-five dollars per month shall not
be considered in determining the amount of aid that any person may
receive under this chapter; there shall also be disregarded in making
such determination eighty per centum of the net earned income of a child
eligible under Title IV of the Social Security Act, such child up to a total
exemption of fifty dollars per month, but not in excess of a total exemp-
tion of one hundred fifty dollars per month for children in the same family
group. It shall be sufficient, when added to all other income and support
of such child, to provide such child 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
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 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
pee neemnenth on public assistance payments under the provisions of this
itle.

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.