1997 Minnesota Statutes

     196.27 Agent Orange settlement payments. 

    (a) Payments received by veterans or their dependents 
 because of settlements between them and the manufacturers of 
 Agent Orange or other chemical agents, as defined in section 
 196.21, must not be treated as income (or an available resource) 
 of the veterans or their dependents for the purposes of any 
 program of public assistance or benefit program administered by 
 the department of veterans affairs, the department of human 
 services, or other agencies of the state or political 
 subdivisions of the state, except as provided in paragraph (b). 

    (b) The income and resource exclusion in paragraph (a) does 
 not apply to the medical assistance, food stamps, aid to 
 families with dependent children or Minnesota family investment 
 program-statewide programs until the commissioner of human 
 services receives formal approval from the United States 
 Department of Health and Human Services, for the medical 
 assistance, aid to families with dependent children or Minnesota 
 family investment program-statewide programs, and from the 
 United States Department of Agriculture, for the food stamps 
 program.  The income exclusion does not apply to the Minnesota 
 supplemental aid program until the commissioner receives formal 
 federal approval of the exclusion for the medical assistance 
 program. 

    HIST: 1989 c 282 art 2 s 53; 1997 c 85 art 4 s 5