Eligibility for Assistance

1. Law
2. Tennessee Code
3. Welfare
4. Programs and Services for Persons With Disabilities
5. Aid to Disabled Persons — General Financial Assistance
6. Eligibility for Assistance

Assistance shall be granted under this part to any permanently and totally disabled person who:

1. Is eighteen (18) years of age or older;
2. Is living within this state voluntarily and not for a temporary purpose, that is, with no intention of presently removing from the state; provided, that temporary absence from the state, with subsequent returns to the state or intent to return when the purposes of the absence have been accomplished, shall not, for the purpose of this part, interrupt continuity of residence;
3. Has not sufficient income or other resources to provide a reasonable subsistence compatible with decency and health, and whose spouse is not able to meet the person's needs as determined by the department's standards;
4. 1. Is not an inmate of a public institution and:
      1. Is not a patient in an institution for tuberculosis or mental diseases; or
      2. Is not a patient in a medical institution as a result of a diagnosis of tuberculosis or psychosis;
   2. An inmate of any public institution ineligible under subdivision (4)(A) may, however, make application for such assistance, but the assistance, if granted, shall not begin until after such person ceases to be an inmate;
5. Within five (5) years immediately preceding application or during receipt of assistance, has not in order to evade any provision of this part made an assignment or transfer of property, the proceeds from which at the fair market value, irrespective of the actual consideration received, would under the state standards of need still be available to meet the needs of the individual. Any transfer of property to a husband, wife, son, daughter, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother, sister, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, nephew or niece, within the period above mentioned, shall be prima facie evidence that the transfer was made with the intent to evade the provisions of this part;
6. Is not receiving for the same month old-age assistance, aid to the blind, or aid to dependent children;
7. Was receiving aid to the permanently and totally disabled benefits during the month of December 1973, and is now qualified under Public Law 93-66 to continue to receive a state money payment as a supplement to the federally-provided supplemental security income benefits.

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