2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 205 - PUBLIC ASSISTANCE AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE 205.220 Payments, to whom made -- Accounting -- Exemption from assignment, levy or execution.
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205.220 Payments, to whom made -- Accounting -- Exemption from
assignment, levy or execution.
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Payments of public assistance grants for eligible individuals shall be made at
the time and in the manner prescribed by regulation to:
(a) The needy aged or needy blind or needy permanently and totally disabled
person or recipient; or
(b) The parent or relative with whom a needy child lives; or
(c) The parent or legal guardian of a blind minor; or
(d) The legal guardian of (a) or (b) above; or
(e) Such other persons on behalf of an eligible person as may be prescribed
by regulation; or
(f) Committees appointed by the court and approved for payment purposes
by the secretary according to prescribed regulations.
Any person who is receiving and disbursing public assistance grants on behalf
of another individual eligible under this chapter shall upon request make an
accounting of such funds to the cabinet in accordance with regulations. If a
public assistance grant made on behalf of a needy individual is not used for the
benefit of such individual, such payment shall be suspended pending
reasonable assurance that future grants will benefit the individual on whose
behalf such payments are made.
Public assistance shall not be assignable and shall be exempt from levy or
execution. Furthermore, no assignment, pledge or encumbrance of any right to
benefits due or payable under this chapter shall be valid. Public assistance
benefits, as long as they are not mingled with other funds of the recipient, shall
be exempt from any remedy for the collection of all debts, liens and
encumbrances. No waiver of any exemption provided for in this subsection
shall be valid.
Effective:July 15, 1980
History: Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 188, sec. 193, effective July 15, 1980.
--Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 74, Art. VI, sec. 107(21) and (29). -- Amended
1972 Ky. Acts ch. 256, sec. 7. -- Amended 1966 Ky. Acts ch. 134, sec. 5. -Amended 1956 Ky. Acts ch. 75, sec. 3. -- Created 1950 Ky. Acts ch. 110, sec. 8.
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