2009 Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 209 Disabilities
209.050. Persons refusing work ineligible for pensions--names may be stricken from roll.
Persons refusing work ineligible for pensions--names may be stricken
from roll.
209.050. 1. Sections 209.010 to 209.160 shall not be so construed as to grant the benefits thereof to any blind person between the ages of eighteen and fifty years who has no occupation and who, being both physically and mentally capable of some useful occupation or of receiving vocational or other training, who refuses, for any reason, to engage in such useful occupation or to avail himself or herself of such vocational or other training.
2. The division of family services may grant its certificate admitting to the pension roll any applicant, otherwise qualified for a pension, who signifies his or her willingness and readiness to enter upon a course of vocational or other training; but in the event any such person fails for more than a reasonable time to enter upon such course of training, without good cause, the division of family services shall strike the name of such person from the blind pension roll.
(RSMo 1939 § 9453, A. 1949 S.B. 1064, A.L. 1976 S.B. 483)Prior revision: 1929 § 8895
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