Code of Virginia - Title 37.2 Mental Health, Mental Retardation, And Substance Abuse Services - Section 37.2-704 Commissioner authorized to receive and expend social security and other federal payments for consum...

§ 37.2-704. Commissioner authorized to receive and expend social security and other federal payments for consum...

The Commissioner, under any provision of federal law and regulation and with the approval of the Governor, may be appointed or function as the agent to whom payments may be made on behalf of any beneficiary in state facilities. These payments shall be expended for the use and benefit of the consumers to whom they would otherwise be payable, and any residue resulting from such payments shall be set aside in a special fund to the credit of the consumer on whose account the payment is made. The charges provided for by law for the care of the consumer shall be defrayed from such payments. The provisions of subsection C of § 37.2-705 shall apply to any payments received under this section.

(Code 1950, § 37-48.1; 1954, c. 412; 1958, c. 446; 1968, c. 477, § 37.1-28; 1980, c. 582; 2005, c. 716.)

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