Section 38-4-10 – Review by County Board of Findings and Awards of County Department.
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 review such finding and award and either to approve, disapprove or amend such award in relation to federal […]
Section 38-4-11 – Confederate Widows Eligible for Old Age Assistance.
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 widows, who may also be eligible for old age assistance under the terms of this chapter, shall be required to make application […]
Section 38-4-12 – Appropriation From Confederate Pension Funds for Old Age Pension Purposes and for Veterans’ Programs.
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 old age pension purposes, out of the proceeds from the levy of the one mill […]
Section 38-4-12.1 – Alabama Veterans’ Assistance Fund.
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 deposited receipts from the one mill ad valorem tax as authorized in Section 38-4-12. The expenditure of all monies deposited into the fund shall be […]
Section 38-4-13 – State Public Welfare Trust Fund.
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 state treasury to the credit of this trust fund, including general fund appropriations, sales tax receipts, liquor profit receipts, the surplus of the Confederate […]
Section 38-4-14 – Limitations on Use of Public Assistance Benefits.
Section 38-4-14 Limitations on use of public assistance benefits. (a) For the purposes of this section, the term public assistance benefits means money or property provided directly or indirectly to eligible persons through programs of the federal government, the state, or any political subdivision thereof, and administered by the Alabama Department of Human Resources. (b)(1) […]
Section 38-4-5 – Right of Persons Applying for or Receiving Public Assistance to Appeal.
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 or is denied, or assistance is not granted promptly following establishment of eligibility, or in case the amount […]
Section 38-4-6 – Subpoena of Witnesses.
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 papers and writings and duly authorized employees of said departments may administer oaths and examine witnesses under oath. (Acts 1951, No. 703, p. 1211, §18.)
Section 38-4-8 – Assistance Grants Exempt From Taxes, Levy, Garnishment, or Other Process, and Inalienable; Bankruptcy.
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 thereof and shall be exempt from levy, garnishment, attachment or any other process whatsoever and shall […]
Section 38-4-9 – Hospitalization of Incapacitated Applicants and Recipients of Old Age Pensions.
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 him to be hospitalized, the county department is authorized to endeavor to make such arrangements as are necessary to […]