DEFINITION OF GOVERNOR

SEC. 1204. [42 U.S.C. 1324] When used in this title, the term "Governor" includes the Commissioners 7 of the District of Columbia.

7P.L. 93-198, §711, abolished the office of Commissioner of the District of Columbia and §421 replaced it with the office of Mayor of the District of Columbia.

[TITLE XIII—RECONVERSION UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS FOR SEAMEN] 1

P.L. 79-719 (60 Stat. 978, approved August 10, 1946), §306, added this title. P.L. 98-369, §2663(f), repealed Title XIII, effective July 18, 1984, but this amendment shall not be construed as changing or affecting any right, liability, status, or interpretation which existed under this provision before that date.

[TITLE XIV-GRANTS TO STATES FOR AID TO THE PERMANENTLY AND TOTALLY DISABLED] 1

TABLE OF CONTENTS OF TITLE 2

Appropriation

Page

Sec. 1401.
Sec. 1402.

683

Sec. 1403.

State plans for aid to the permanently and totally disabled
Payment to States

683

686

SEC. 1401. [42 U.S.C. 1351] For the purpose of enabling each State to furnish financial assistance, as far as practicable under the conditions in such State, to needy individuals eighteen years of age and older who are permanently and totally disabled, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year a sum sufficient to carry out the purposes of this title. The sums made available under this section shall be used for making payments to States which have submitted, and had approved by the Administrator, State plans for aid to the permanently and totally disabled.

STATE PLANS FOR AID TO THE PERMANENTLY AND TOTALLY DISABLED

SEC. 1402. [42 U.S.C. 1352] (a) A State plan for aid to the permanently and totally disabled must (1) except to the extent permitted by the Secretary with respect to services, provide that it shall be in effect in all political subdivisions of the State, and, if

IP.L. 92-603, §303, repealed Title XIV, effective January 1, 1974, except with respect to Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands. The Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas may elect to initiate a Title XIV social services program if it chooses; see Vol. II, P.L. 94–241, (Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas].

Title XIV of the Social Security Act is administered by the Department of Health and Human Services. The Office of Family Assistance, Family Support Administration, administers benefit payments under Title XIV. The Office of Human Development Services administers social services under Title XIV.

42.

Title XIV appears in the United States Code as §§1351-1355, subchapter XIV, chapter 7, Title

Regulations of the Secretary of Health and Human Services relating to Title XIV are contained in chapter 1, Title 42, and subtitle A and chapter XIII, Title 45, Code of Federal Regula

tions.

See Vol. II, 31 U.S.C. 6504-6505 with respect to intergovernmental cooperation.

See Vol. II, 31 U.S.C. 7501-7507 with respect to uniform audit requirements for State and local governments receiving Federal financial assistance.

See Vol. II, P.L. 82-183, §618, for the "Jenner Amendment", which prohibits denial of grantsin-aid under certain conditions.

See Vol. II, P.L. 88-352, §601, for prohibition against discrimination in Federally assisted programs.

See Vol. II, P.L. 89-97, §121(b), with respect to restrictions on payment to a State receiving payments under Title XIX.

See Vol. II, P.L. 95-521, §102(i), with respect to reporting of benefits received under the Social Security Act.

2 This table of contents does not appear in the law.

administered by them, be mandatory upon them; (2) provide for financial participation by the State; (3) either provide for the establishment or designation of a single State agency to administer the plan, or provide for the establishment or designation of a single State agency to supervise the administration of the plan; (4) provide (A) for granting an opportunity for a fair hearing before the State agency to any individual whose claim for aid to the permanently and totally disabled is denied or is not acted upon with reasonable promptness, and (B) that if the State plan is administered in each of the political subdivisions of the State by a local agency and such local agency provides a hearing at which evidence may be presented prior to a hearing before the State agency, such local agency may put into effect immediately upon issuance its decision upon the matter considered at such hearing; (5) provide (A) such methods of administration (including methods relating to the estab lishment and maintenance of personnel standards on a merit basis, except that the Secretary shall exercise no authority with respect to the selection, tenure of office, and compensation of any individual employed in accordance with such methods) as are found by the Secretary to be necessary for the proper and efficient operation of the plan 3, and (B) for the training and effective use of paid subprofessional staff, with particular emphasis on the full-time or part-time employment of recipients and other persons of low income, as community service aides, in the administration of the plan and for the use of nonpaid or partially paid volunteers in a social service volunteer program in providing services to applicants and recipients and in assisting any advisory committees established by the State agency; (6) provide that the State agency will make such reports, in such form and containing such information, as the Secretary may from time to time require, and comply with such provi sions as the Secretary may from time to time find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports; (7) provide that no aid will be furnished any individual under the plan with respect to any period with respect to which he is receiving old-age assistance under the State plan approved under section 2 of this Act, assistance under a State program funded under part A of title IV or aid to the blind under the State plan approved under section 1002 of this Act; (8) provide that the State agency shall, in determining need, take into consideration any other income and resources of an individual claiming aid to the permanently and totally disabled, as well as any expenses reasonably attributable to the earning of any such income; except that, in making such determination, (A) the State agency may disregard not more than $7.50 of any income, (B) of the first $80 per month of additional income which is earned the State agency may disregard not more than the first $20 thereof plus one-half of the remainder, and (C) the State agency may, for a period not in excess of 36 months, disregard such additional amounts of other income and resources, in the case of an individual who has a plan for achieving self-support approved by the State agency, as may be necessary for the fulfillment of such plan, but only with respect to the part or parts of such period during substantially all of which he is actually undergoing vocational rehabilitation; 4 (9) provide safeguards which permit the use or dis

3P.L. 91-648, §208(a)(3)(D), transferred to the U.S. Civil Service Commission, effective March 6, 1971, all powers, functions, and duties of the Secretary under subparagraph (Á).

4 See Vol. II, 10 U.S.C. 2546 with respect to shelter for the homeless at military installations.