Code of Alabama - Title 38: Public Welfare - Chapter 4 - 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 within...
• Section 38-4-2 Application for assistance; investigation; determination of eligibility and amount of assistance; notice to applicant
  (a) Applications for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) cash assistance shall be made to the county department in the manner prescribed by the state...
• 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 without...
• Section 38-4-4 Reduction, cancellation or continuance of assistance grant when recipient becomes possessed of income or resources
  (a) If at any time the recipient of public assistance, the husband or wife of such recipient, or the cohabiting partner of the recipient, as...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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,...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...

Last modified: May 3, 2021