235-a. Income and resources not to include agent orange benefits. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, the terms "income" and "resources" for the purpose of determining eligibility for or the amount of benefits under any means-tested state or state assisted or federally assisted program including but not limited to programs of public assistance and care, including family assistance, safety net assistance, medical assistance, title XX of the social security act, food stamp program, the program of additional state payments to persons eligible for supplemental security income, the low income home energy assistance program and grants, loans and scholarships and other means-tested programs for educational assistance, shall not include payments received from the agent orange settlement fund or any other fund established pursuant to the settlement in the in re agent orange product liability litigation, M.D.L. No. 381 (E.D.N.Y.) and/or any payments received from court proceedings brought for personal injuries sustained by veterans resulting from exposure to dioxin or phenoxy herbicides in connection with the war in Indochina in the period January first, nineteen hundred sixty-two through May seventh, nineteen hundred seventy-five.
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