CHAPTER 667

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 68-115, 68-141, and 68-179, as amended,
of the Code of Virginia, relating to eligibility for certain categories
of welfare assistance.

[H 407]

Approved April 5, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 63-115, 63-141, and 63-179, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia be amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 63-115. Eligibility for assistance.—An aged person shall be eligible
for assistance if he

(a) Has attained the age of sixty-five years;

(b) Has continuously resided in Virginia for one year immediately
preceding the date of application for such assistance; provided, however,
that the State Board may, by rule and regulation, reduce such residence
requirement in conformance with federal assistance programs or with
decisions of federal or State courts concerning the constitutionality of
such residence requirements.
(c) Is needy and is in need of public assistance, provided that prop-
erty owned and occupied by an applicant as his residence shall not dis-
qualify such person for assistance;

(d) Is not an inmate of or being maintained by any county, munic-
ipal, State, or national institution at the time of receiving such assistance;
such an inmate may, however, make application for old age assistance,
but such assistance, if granted shall not begin until after he ceases to be
such inmate; provided that in the event the Federal Social Security Act or
other appropriate federal statutes are so amended as to permit funds
appropriated by Congress to be used for assistance to aged persons who
are inmates of public institutions, then being an inmate of any such insti-
tution shall not disqualify any such person for assistance;

(e) Has not made an assignment or transfer of property so as to
render himself eligible for old age assistance under this law at any time
within five years immediately prior to the filing of the application for
such assistance.

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§ 63-141. Eligibility for aid—A dependent child shall be eligible for
aid to dependent children if such child:

(a) Has not attained the age of sixteen years, or if regularly attend-
ing school has not attained the age of twenty-one years;

(b) Has resided in this State for one year immediately preceding the
application for such aid, or was born within one year immediately preced-
ing the application, if the parent or other relative with whom the child
is living has resided within this State for one year immediately preceding
such birth; provided, however, that the State Board may, by rule and
regulation, reduce such residence requirement in conformance with federal
assistance programs or with decisions of federal or State courts concern-
ing the constitutionality of such residence requirements.

(c) Is deprived of parental support or care by reason of the death,
a absence from home, or physical or mental incapacity of a
parent;

(d) Is living with his father, mother, grandfather, grandmother,
brother, sister, stepfather, stepmother, stepbrother, stepsister, uncle or
aunt in a place of residence maintained by one or more of such relatives
as his or their own home; provided that in the event the Federal Social
Security Act or other appropriate federal statutes are so amended as to
permit funds appropriated by Congress to be used for aid to dependent
children living elsewhere than in such residence or home, then living in
en oe aenke or home shall not be necessary to qualify such child for
aid; an

(e) Is needy and in need of public assistance.

§ 63-179. Eligibility for aid——A blind person shall be eligible for
aid to the blind if he:

(a) Has, with correcting glasses, twenty/two hundredths vision or
less, in the better eye;

(b) Has continuously resided in Virginia for one year immediately
preceding the date of application for aid to the blind; provided, however,
that the Commission may, by rule and regulation, reduce such residence
requirement in conformance with federal assistance programs or with
decisions of federal or State courts concerning the constitutionality of such
residence requirements.

(c) Is needy and is in need of public assistance;

(d) Is not an inmate of or being maintained by any county, munic-
ipal, State or national institution at the time of receiving aid to the blind;
such an inmate may, however, make application for such aid, but such aid,
if granted, shall not begin until after he ceases to be such inmate; pro-
vided that in the event the Federal Social Security Act or other appro-
priate federal statutes are so amended as to permit funds appropriated by
Congress to be used for aid to blind persons who are inmates of public
institutions, then being an inmate of any such institution shall not dis-
qualify any such person for aid; and

(e) Has not made an assignment or transfer of property so as to
render himself eligible for aid to the blind under this law at any time
ais aa jive years immediately prior to the filing of the application for
such aid.

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