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 74TH CONGRESS. SESS. I. CH. 531 . AUGUST 14, 1935 . (2) Any residence requirement which excludes any resident of the State who has resided therein five years during the nine years immediately preceding the application for old-age assistance and has resided therein continuously for one year immediately pre- ceding the application ; or (3) Any citizenship requirement which excludes any citizen of the Un ited S tates. PAYMENT TO STATES 621 Payment to States. SEC. 3. (a) From the sums appropriated therefor, the Secretary quarterly . to be paid of the Treasury shall pay to each State which has an approved plan for old-age assistance, for each quarter, beginning with the quarter commencing July 1, 1935, (1) an amount, which shall be used exclu- stet Matching funds by sively as old-age assistance, equal to one-half of the total of the sums expended during such quarter as old-age assistance under the State plan with respect to each individual who at the time of such expendi- ture is sixty-five years of age or older and is not an inmate of a publi c inst itutio n, not count ing so much of suc h expe nditur e with respect to any individual for any month as exceeds $30, and (2) 5 per centum of such amou nt, which shall be used for pa ying the costs of administering the State plan or for old-age assistance, or both, and for no other purpose : Provided, That the State plan, in Proviso. order to be approved b the Boar d need n ot provi de for f inan-tic iptionti on Ti off . anciaipar- cial participation beforeJuly 1, 1937 by the State, in the case of any State whic h the Boar d, u pon a pplic ation by the State and after reaso nable notice and o pportu nity f or hea ring t o the State, finds is prevented by its constitution from providing such financial participation. (b) The method of computing and paying such amounts shall be i geta d of Pcompu- as follows : amounts. (1) The Board shall, prior to the beginning of each quarter, mE sti pr io r to begin- estimate the amount to be paid to the State for such quarter under ning of quarter . the provisions of clause (1) of subsection (a), such estimate to Basis of estimates. be based on (A) a report filed by the State containing its estimate of the total sum to be expended in such quarter in accordance with the provisions of such clause, and stating the amount appro- priated or made available by the State and its political subdivisions for such expenditures in such quarter, and if such amount is less than one-half of the total sum of such estimated expenditures, the source or sources from which the difference is expected to be derived, (B) records showing the number of aged individuals in the State, and (C) such other investigation as the Board may find necessary. (2) The Board shall then certify to the Secretary of the aCertification d;ad- Treasury the amount so estimated by the Board, reduced or iustments. increased, as the case may be, by any sum by which it finds that its estimate for any prior quarter was greater or less than the amount which should have been paid to the State under clause (1) of subsection (a) for such quarter, except to the extent that such sum has been applied to make the amount certified for any prior quarter greater or less than the amount estimated by the Board for such prior quarter. (3) The Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon, through the diPaymcnts prior A~ Division of Disbursement of the Treasury Department and prior counting o fmewaived. t o audit or settlement by the General Accounting Office, pay to the State, at the time or times fixed by the Board, the amount so ce rtified, increas ed by 5 per cent um. Admini strativ e costs.