2020 Georgia Code
Title 49 - Social Services
Chapter 4 - Public Assistance


Cross references.

- Workers' compensation, T. 34, C. 9.

Assisting low or fixed income persons to pay gas and electric bills, § 46-1-5.

Powers and duties of Department of Human Services regarding federal government programs relating to the aging, § 49-6-1 et seq.

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Coverage for nonresident patients.

- Owner/operator of a Georgia nursing home facility was entitled to medicaid reimbursement for nonresident long-term care patients who, after the termination of a reciprocal interstate agreement with South Carolina governing coverage for such patients, expressed in writing the patients' will and intent to be Georgia residents. State v. Stuckey Health Care, Inc., 189 Ga. App. 126, 375 S.E.2d 235, cert. denied, 189 Ga. App. 913, 375 S.E.2d 235 (1988).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR.

- Eligibility for welfare benefits, under maximum-assets limitations, as affected by expenditures or disposal of assets, 19 A.L.R.4th 146.

Eligibility for welfare benefits as affected by claimant's status as trust beneficiary, 21 A.L.R.4th 729.

Propriety of telephone testimony or hearings in public welfare proceedings, 88 A.L.R.4th 1094.

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