Tennessee Code 71-2-204 – Determination of amount of assistance
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 71-2-204
- Assistance: means either money payments made to or in behalf of aged persons in need, or medical care and treatment, nursing home care, drugs including hospitalization, and outpatient care or any other type of remedial care recognized under state law in behalf of aged persons in need, or any of these, but does not include subdivisions (1)(A)-(1)(D) unless the federal Social Security Act (42 U. See Tennessee Code 71-2-202
- Department: means the department of human services. See Tennessee Code 71-2-202
- Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
- Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
- Recipient: means a person who was receiving old age assistance benefits during the month of December 1973, and is now qualified under the provisions of Public Law 93-66 to continue to receive a state money payment as a supplement to the federally-provided supplemental security income benefits. See Tennessee Code 71-2-202
The amount of assistance that any person shall receive in the form of supplementary money payments shall be determined by an application of § 212(a) of Public Law 93-66 and rules and regulations made by the department establishing standards of need and allowable resources to the recipient‘s present personal and economic circumstances.