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 91 STAT. 1354 42 USC 603.

PUBLIC LAW 95-171—NOV. 12, 1977

SEC. 3, (a)(1) Section 403(a) of the Social Security Act is amended by striking out "10" in each of the last ty.'o sentences and inserting in lieu thereof "20". Families with (2) Section 406(b) of such Act is amended— dependent (A) by striking out the semicolon at the end of clause (2)(E) children, aid and inserting in lieu thereof a period; and payments. (B) by adding at the end thereof (after and below clause 42 USC 606. (2)(E)) the following new sentences: "Payments with respect to a dependent child which are intended to enable the recipient to pay for specific goods, services, or items recognized by the State agency as a part of the child's need under the State plan may (in the discretion of the State or local agency administering the plan in the political subdivision) be made, pursuant to a determination referred to in clause (2)(A), in the form of checks d r a w n jointly to the order of the recipient and the person furnishing such goods, services, or items and negotiable only upon endorsement by both such recipient and such person; and payments so made shall be considered for all of the purposes of this part to be payments described in clause (2). Whenever payments with respect to a dependent child are made in the manner described in clause (2) (including payments described in the preceding sentence), a statement of the specific reasons for making such payments in that manner (on which the determination under clause (2)(A) was based) shall be placed in the file maintained with respect to such child by the State or local agency administering the State plan in the political subdivision.". Effective date. (3) The amendments made by this subsection shall apply wath 42 USC 603 note. respect to payments of aid to families with dependent children made for months beginning on or after October 1, 1977. State aid plans, (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, Federal financial Federal financial participation in aid to families with dependent children under a State participation. plan approved under section 402 of the Social Security Act, for 42 USC 606 note. quarters (with respect to which expenditure reports were timely filed 42 USC 602. by the State) during the period beginning with the calendar quarter 42 USC 302 note. in which Public Law 90-248 was enacted and ending wnth the first calendar quarter of 1977, shall not be denied, on or after October 1, 1977, by reason of the provision of goods, services, or items in the form of a check which is d r a w n jointly to the order of the recipient and the person furnishing such goods, services, or items and which shows the purpose for which the check is drawn, or by reason of the failure of the State to meet the requirement of the last two sentences of section 403(a) of such Act or the failure of the State (or any political subdivision thereof) to carry out the functions and duties prescribed in clauses (A), (B), (C), and (E) of section 40r)(b)(2) of such Act, regardless of the form in which the aid involved was paid, if (and to the extent that) the amount of such aid was correct and the payment of the aid in that form did not result in assistance in cases or in amounts not authorized by or under part A of title IV of such Act.

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