Chapter 1 - Public Assistance Generally
- Section 38-4-1 Persons to whom public assistance payable
(a) Generally. - Public assistance shall be payable under this chapter to or on behalf of any person who is a needy blind person ...
- Section 38-4-2 Application for assistance; investigation; determination of eligibility and amount of assistance; notice to applicant
(a) Applications for assistance shall be made to the county department in the manner prescribed by the state department and shall contain such information ...
- Section 38-4-3 Payments after death
When a recipient dies before delivery or negotiation of his assistance check for the month in which his death occurs, endorsement of such check ...
- Section 38-4-4 Reduction, cancellation or continuance of assistance grant when recipient becomes possessed of income or resources
If at any time the recipient of public assistance, or the husband or wife of such recipient, shall become possessed of any income or ...
- Section 38-4-5 Right of persons applying for or receiving public assistance to appeal
In the event a person is denied the right to apply for public assistance, or his application is not acted upon with reasonable promptness ...
- Section 38-4-6 Subpoena of witnesses
The state department and the county department shall have the power to issue subpoenas for witnesses and compel their attendance and the production of ...
- Section 38-4-8 Assistance grants exempt from taxes, levy, garnishment or other process, and inalienable; bankruptcy
All amounts paid or payable as public assistance to needy persons shall be exempt from any tax levied by the state or any subdivision ...
- Section 38-4-9 Hospitalization of incapacitated applicants and recipients of old age pensions
In the event an applicant or recipient of an old age pension under this chapter is so physically incapacitated that it is necessary for ...
- Section 38-4-10 Review by county board of findings and awards of county department
The county board shall have the power to require a report of the finding and award of the county department in each case, to ...
- Section 38-4-11 Confederate widows eligible for old age assistance
Any widow of a Confederate veteran entitled to a pension under the provisions of the laws authorizing the payment of such pensions to Confederate ...
- Section 38-4-12 Appropriation from Confederate pension funds for old age pension purposes and for veterans' programs
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), there is appropriated, beginning with the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, to the state department, for ...
- Section 38-4-12.1 Alabama Veterans' Assistance Fund
(a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury a fund to be known as the Alabama Veterans' Assistance Fund, into which shall be ...
- Section 38-4-13 State public welfare trust fund
There is hereby created a state public welfare trust fund. All receipts of the State Department of Human Resources shall be deposited in the ...
