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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 1203. Payment to States
(a) Authorization of payments
From the sums appropriated therefor, the Secretary of the
Treasury shall pay to each State which has an approved plan for aid
to the blind, for each quarter, beginning with the quarter
commencing October 1, 1958 -
(1) Repealed. Pub. L. 97-35, title XXI, Sec. 2184(c)(2)(A),
Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 817.
(2) in the case of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam,
an amount equal to one-half of the total of the sums expended
during such quarter as aid to the blind under the State plan, not
counting so much of any expenditure with respect to any month as
exceeds $37.50 multiplied by the total number of recipients of
aid to the blind for such month; and
(3) in the case of any State, an amount equal to 50 percent of
the total amounts expended during such quarter as found necessary
by the Secretary for the proper and efficient administration of
the State plan.
(b) Computation of amounts
The method of computing and paying such amounts shall be as
follows:
(1) The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall, prior to
the beginning of each quarter, estimate the amount to be paid to
the State for such quarter under the provisions of subsection (a)
of this section, such estimate to 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 subsection, and stating the amount appropriated or made
available by the State and its political subdivisions for such
expenditures in such quarter, and if such amount is less than the
State's proportionate share 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 blind
individuals in the State, and (C) such other investigation as the
Secretary may find necessary.
(2) The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall then
certify to the Secretary of the Treasury the amount so estimated
by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, (A) reduced or
increased, as the case may be, by any sum by which he finds that
his estimate for any prior quarter was greater or less than the
amount which should have been paid to the State under subsection
(a) of this section for such quarter, and (B) reduced by a sum
equivalent to the pro rata share to which the United States is
equitably entitled, as determined by the Secretary of Health and
Human Services, of the net amount recovered during a prior
quarter by the State or any political subdivision thereof with
respect to aid to the blind furnished under the State plan;
except that such increases or reductions shall not be made to the
extent that such sums have been applied to make the amount
certified for any prior quarter greater or less than the amount
estimated by the Secretary of Health and Human Services for such
prior quarter: Provided, That any part of the amount recovered
from the estate of a deceased recipient which is not in excess of
the amount expended by the State or any political subdivision
thereof for the funeral expenses of the deceased shall not be
considered as a basis for reduction under clause (B) of this
paragraph.
(3) The Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon, through the
Fiscal Service of the Treasury Department, and prior to audit or
settlement by the General Accounting Office, pay to the State, at
the time or times fixed by the Secretary of Health and Human
Services, the amount so certified.
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