Pennsylvania Code
Title 55 - HUMAN SERVICES
Part II - Public Assistance Manual
Subpart C - Eligibility Requirements
Chapter 161 - PERSONS IN INSTITUTIONS
AFDC/GA PROVISIONS FOR PERSONS IN INSTITUTIONS
Section 161.21 - Policy
Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 44, November 2, 2024
(a) The Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.A. §§ 301-1397f), provides that Federal participation cannot be obtained for payments made to or on behalf of a person who is an inmate of a public institution, except as a patient in a medical institution, or who is a patient in an institution for tuberculosis or mental disease.
(b) The Public Assistance Law, as amended, prohibits granting GA to an inmate of a public institution. Blind Pension may be granted to a blind person who is an inmate of a public institution if it is not a mental, penal, reform, or correctional institution.
(c) Both the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.A. §§ 301-1397f) and the Public Assistance Law prohibit the granting of AFDC to a child or caretaker residing anywhere but in "his or their home."
(d) The act of June 29, 1953 (P. L. 300, No. 64) (62 P. S. §§ 2561-2565) (repealed 1967) defines an institution as an establishment which furnishes food and shelter to three or more persons unrelated to the proprietor, and which provides some care or service which meets a need beyond the basic provision of food, shelter and laundry. The following institutions come within the meaning of the definition:
