reglab/housing_qa huggingface dataset:
NH Rev Stat § 167:20-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 167 - Public Assistance to Blind, Aged, or Disabled Persons, and to Dependent Children|Section 167:20-b - Authorization for Work Incentive Program.

    167:20-b Authorization for Work Incentive Program. –||For purposes of complying with federal requirements of the social security act in the joint administration of the work incentive program by the appropriate agency of state government, the commissioner of the department of health and human services is hereby authorized to manifest, upon presentation of statement of costs, the non-federal contribution required by the social security act.|||Source. 1969, 451:6. 1973, 423:7. 1983, 291:1, II. 1995, 310:182, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 167:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 167 - Public Assistance to Blind, Aged, or Disabled Persons, and to Dependent Children|Section 167:21 - State Aid.

    167:21 State Aid. –||Should a county find that it is impossible to pay the amounts required under this chapter or RSA 161, it may file a petition with the commissioner of the department of health and human services requesting financial aid. The commissioner of health and human services shall cause an investigation to be made of all pertinent factors relating to the financial circumstances of the petitioning county. The commissioner of health and human services may, with the approval of the governor and council, loan or grant to such county such amount as may be necessary.|||Source. 1937, 202:25. RL 126:24. RSA 167:21. 1983, 291:1. 1985, 380:46. 1995, 310:176, 182, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 167:22 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 167 - Public Assistance to Blind, Aged, or Disabled Persons, and to Dependent Children|Section 167:22 - Voting Rights Not Affected.

    167:22 Voting Rights Not Affected. –||While federal funds are available the receipt of public assistance granted under the provisions hereof or of RSA 161 shall not make the recipient thereof, or any member of his family, an assisted person within the terms of the election laws of this state, nor affect his or their civil or political status in any way.|||Source. 1937, 202:28. RL 126:26. RSA 167:22. 1985, 380:47, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.|
NH Rev Stat § 167:23 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 167 - Public Assistance to Blind, Aged, or Disabled Persons, and to Dependent Children|Section 167:23 - Summons of Witnesses.

    167:23 Summons of Witnesses. –||The commissioner of health and human services or his duly authorized agent shall have the power to issue subpoenas for witnesses and compel their attendance and the production of papers and writings.|||Source. 1937, 202:29. RL 126:27. RSA 167:23. 1983, 291:1. 1995, 310:176, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 167:24 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 167 - Public Assistance to Blind, Aged, or Disabled Persons, and to Dependent Children|Section 167:24 - Acceptance of Funds.

    167:24 Acceptance of Funds. –||The governor and council are hereby authorized on behalf of the state to accept and to apply to the carrying out of the purposes of this chapter or RSA 161 all moneys that may be advanced to, or otherwise placed at the disposal of, the state by the federal government or any of its agencies for the purposes of this chapter or RSA 161. Said funds shall be disbursed by the commissioner of health and human services.|||Source. 1937, 202:30. RL 126:28. RSA 167:24. 1983, 291:1. 1995, 310:176, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 167:25 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 167 - Public Assistance to Blind, Aged, or Disabled Persons, and to Dependent Children|Section 167:25 - Assignability of Assistance.

    167:25 Assignability of Assistance. –||All assistance given hereunder shall be inalienable by any assignment or transfer and shall be exempt from levy or execution under the laws of this state including periodic payments on any judgment of any kind under RSA 524:6-a.|||Source. 1937, 202:31. RL 126:29. 2014, 186:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 167:26 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 167 - Public Assistance to Blind, Aged, or Disabled Persons, and to Dependent Children|Section 167:26 - Protective Payee.

    167:26 Protective Payee. –||If the person receiving public assistance is, on the testimony of reliable witnesses who are not officials or employees of the department of health and human services, found to be incapable of taking care of himself or his money, the commissioner of health and human services may make the payments of such assistance to a protective payee, as defined by federal regulations, for the benefit of such person.|||Source. 1937, 202:32. RL 126:30. 1951, 90:9. RSA 167:26. 1969, 451:7. 1975, 223:1. 1983, 291:1. 1995, 310:176, 181, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 167:27 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 167 - Public Assistance to Blind, Aged, or Disabled Persons, and to Dependent Children|Section 167:27 - Eligibility for State and Local Assistance, Confidentiality.

    167:27 Eligibility for State and Local Assistance, Confidentiality. –||I. Except as provided in paragraph II, no person receiving old age assistance or aid to the permanently and totally disabled under this chapter or RSA 161 shall at the same time receive any other relief from the state, or from any political subdivision thereof, except for medical and surgical assistance.||II. Notwithstanding paragraph I, a municipality may provide assistance under RSA 165 to a person who is also receiving old age assistance or aid to the permanently and totally disabled if the guidelines adopted by the governing body under RSA 165:1 authorize assistance to such persons, and the acceptance of such relief shall not operate as a revocation of old age assistance or aid to the permanently and totally disabled.||III. The names of persons receiving old age assistance or aid to the permanently and totally disabled under the provisions of this chapter or RSA 161 shall not be printed in any report of the county commissioners or of the commissioner of health and human services nor published in any state, county, or town report.|||Source. 1937, 202:33. RL 126:31. 1951, 90:10. RSA 167:27. 1983, 291:1. 1995, 310:176. 2013, 183:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2014.|
NH Rev Stat § 167:27-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 167 - Public Assistance to Blind, Aged, or Disabled Persons, and to Dependent Children|Section 167:27-a - Personal Needs Allowance of Residents of Nursing Homes.

    167:27-a Personal Needs Allowance of Residents of Nursing Homes. –||I. The commissioner of health and human services shall permit each medical assistance recipient approved for nursing home payments to retain from the recipient's monthly income a certain amount a month for personal needs. Such amount shall be established by the commissioner pursuant to RSA 541-A and in accordance with federal regulations, but in no event shall the amount be less than $56. If the net monthly income of such a recipient is less than the amount established by the commissioner, the commissioner shall provide sufficient old age assistance, aid to the permanently and totally disabled, or aid to the needy blind to allow the recipient an amount equal to the monthly amount established as allowance for the recipient's personal needs.||II. Every 5 years, the commissioner shall make the adjustment for cost of living increases in the personal needs allowance to reflect social security increases.|||Source. 1983, 291:1; 469:133. 1986, 183:8. 1987, 328:1. 1989, 304:1. 1995, 310:176, 183. 1999, 298:1. 2005, 213:1, eff. July 1, 2005.|
NH Rev Stat § 167:27-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 167 - Public Assistance to Blind, Aged, or Disabled Persons, and to Dependent Children|Section 167:27-b - Personal Needs Allowance of Residents in Residential Care Facilities and Community Residences.

    167:27-b Personal Needs Allowance of Residents in Residential Care Facilities and Community Residences. –||Recipients of assistance who are approved by the department of health and human services for residential care facility or community residence payments shall be allowed to retain from their income an amount not less than the amount established by the commissioner of the department of health and human services as provided in RSA 167:27-a as the monthly allowance for their personal needs, in accordance with rules adopted by the commissioner of the department of health and human services pursuant to RSA 541-A. This amount shall not be used to reimburse facilities for the cost of care.|||Source. 1987, 328:3. 1988, 289:2. 1989, 304:2. 1995, 310:181, 182, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 167:27-c (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 167 - Public Assistance to Blind, Aged, or Disabled Persons, and to Dependent Children|Section 167:27-c - Cost-of-Living Increases to Residents of Residential Care Facilities and Community Residences.

    167:27-c Cost-of-Living Increases to Residents of Residential Care Facilities and Community Residences. –||The state shall maintain its minimum supplementary payment levels to recipients of assistance at residential care facilities and community residences in conjunction with supplemental and social security increases. The commissioner of the department of health and human services, shall not decrease the amount of the state's contribution paid to recipients of financial assistance in residential care facilities and community residences because of such supplemental and social security increases.|||Source. 1994, 127:1. 1995, 310:182, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 167:28 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 167 - Public Assistance to Blind, Aged, or Disabled Persons, and to Dependent Children|Section 167:28 - Condition of Granting Assistance.

    167:28 Condition of Granting Assistance. –||The commissioner of the department of health and human services shall require as a condition to granting old age assistance, aid to the permanently and totally disabled, or aid to the needy blind in any case that the applicant, and the spouse of the applicant, if any, residing with the applicant, submit a properly acknowledged agreement to reimburse the federal government, the state and the county for all assistance granted. In such agreement such applicant, and the spouse of the applicant, if any, shall assign as collateral security for such assistance such part of his or her personal property as the commissioner of health and human services shall demand. All funds recovered under the provisions of this section and RSA 167:27, after any necessary reimbursement to the federal government as provided in RSA 167:13, shall be allocated to the county and to the state in the same proportion as the assistance paid by each.|||Source. 1949, 173:1, par. 32-a. 1951, 90:11. RSA 167:28. 1983, 291:1. 1985, 380:46. 1995, 310:176, 182. 2006, 278:1, eff. June 15, 2006.|
NH Rev Stat § 167:29 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 167 - Public Assistance to Blind, Aged, or Disabled Persons, and to Dependent Children|Section 167:29 - Assignment of Property.

    167:29 Assignment of Property. –||If the commissioner of the department of health and human services shall deem it necessary he may require as a condition to the grant or continuance of old age assistance or aid to the permanently and totally disabled in any case that all or any part of the property of a person applying for such aid be transferred to the commissioner of the department of health and human services in trust as follows: Such property shall be managed by said commissioner of health and human services and the net income thereof shall be paid to such person; said commissioner of health and human services shall have the power to sell, lease, or transfer such property or defend or prosecute all suits concerning it and to pay all just claims against it and to do all things necessary for the protection, preservation, and management thereof. If the old age assistance or aid to the permanently and totally disabled of such person is discontinued during his lifetime, the property thus transferred shall be returned to him subject to a lien on such property for any sums paid to him as old age assistance or aid to the permanently and totally disabled under this chapter or RSA 161, or the remainder of such property after deducting therefrom the sums paid to him as such assistance shall be returned to him. In the event of his death, the remainder of such property, after deducting therefrom the sums paid him as old age assistance or aid to the permanently and totally disabled under this chapter or RSA 161, shall be considered as the property of the estate of the beneficiary for administrative proceedings. The commissioner of health and human services shall execute and deliver all necessary instruments to give effect to this section.|||Source. 1937, 202:35. RL 126:33. 1951, 90:12. RSA 167:29. 1983, 291:1. 1995, 310:176, 182, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 167:30 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 167 - Public Assistance to Blind, Aged, or Disabled Persons, and to Dependent Children|Section 167:30 - Confidential Character of Public Assistance Records.

    167:30 Confidential Character of Public Assistance Records. –||Whenever under provisions of law names and addresses of recipients of assistance or child welfare services under this chapter or RSA 161 are furnished to or held by any other agency or department of government, such agency or department of government shall be required to adopt regulations necessary to prevent the publication of lists thereof or their use for purposes not directly connected with the administration of this chapter or RSA 161.|||Source. 1941, 107:3. RL 126:34. 1951, 90:13. RSA 167:30. 1973, 353:3, eff. Aug. 26, 1973.|
NH Rev Stat § 167:31 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 167 - Public Assistance to Blind, Aged, or Disabled Persons, and to Dependent Children|Section 167:31 - Misuse of Lists and Records.

    167:31 Misuse of Lists and Records. –||It shall be unlawful except for purposes directly connected with the administration of assistance or child welfare services under this chapter or RSA 161, and in accordance with regulations prescribed by the commissioner for any person, to solicit, disclose, receive, make use of or to authorize, knowingly permit, participate in or acquiesce in the use of, any list of or names of, or any information concerning persons applying for or receiving such assistance or services directly or indirectly derived from the records, papers, files or communications of the department of health and human services, or agencies thereof, or acquired in the course of the performance of official duties.|||Source. 1941, 107:3. RL 126:35. 1951, 90:13. RSA 167:31. 1973, 353:4. 1983, 291:1. 1995, 310:181, 183, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 167:32 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 167 - Public Assistance to Blind, Aged, or Disabled Persons, and to Dependent Children|Section 167:32 - Penalties.

    167:32 Penalties. –||Any person who shall violate the provisions of RSA 167:31 shall be guilty of a violation.|||Source. 1941, 107:3. RL 126:36. RSA 167:32. 1973, 531:39, eff. Oct. 31, 1973 at 11:59 p.m.|
NH Rev Stat § 167:33 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 167 - Public Assistance to Blind, Aged, or Disabled Persons, and to Dependent Children|Section 167:33 - Legal Proceedings.

    167:33 Legal Proceedings. –||Any suit, action, petition, or other legal proceeding to enforce a lien recovering any money or property from any recipient of old age assistance or aid to the permanently and totally disabled, under this chapter or RSA 161, or his estate shall be instituted and prosecuted in the name of the state of New Hampshire, and any recovery shall be for the benefit of and, after any necessary reimbursement of the federal government, be allocated and paid to the state and the county in proportion to the assistance paid.|||Source. 1937, 202:36. RL 126:37. 1951, 90:13. RSA 167:33. 1985, 380:46, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.|
NH Rev Stat § 167:34 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 167 - Public Assistance to Blind, Aged, or Disabled Persons, and to Dependent Children|Section 167:34 - Reports by Counties.

    167:34 Reports by Counties. –||The counties shall, from time to time, make such reports relative to direct relief, and shall transfer to said department of health and human services such records relative to old age assistance and aid to the blind, as the commissioner of health and human services may determine.|||Source. 1937, 202:37. RL 126:38. RSA 167:34. 1983, 291:1. 1985, 380:46. 1995, 310:176, 181, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 167:35 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 167 - Public Assistance to Blind, Aged, or Disabled Persons, and to Dependent Children|Section 167:35 - to 167:37 Repealed by 1970, 34:4-6, eff. July 1, 1970.

    167:35 to 167:37 Repealed by 1970, 34:4-6, eff. July 1, 1970. –|
NH Rev Stat § 167:37-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 167 - Public Assistance to Blind, Aged, or Disabled Persons, and to Dependent Children|Section 167:37-a - to 167:42 Repealed by 1970, 34:7-12, eff. July 1, 1970.

    167:37-a to 167:42 Repealed by 1970, 34:7-12, eff. July 1, 1970. –|
NH Rev Stat § 167:42-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 167 - Public Assistance to Blind, Aged, or Disabled Persons, and to Dependent Children|Section 167:42-a - Repealed by 1983, 275:4, eff. Aug. 17, 1983.

    167:42-a Repealed by 1983, 275:4, eff. Aug. 17, 1983. –|
NH Rev Stat § 167:43 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 167 - Public Assistance to Blind, Aged, or Disabled Persons, and to Dependent Children|Section 167:43 - Repealed by 1995, 310:170, IX, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.

    167:43 Repealed by 1995, 310:170, IX, eff. Nov. 1, 1995. –|
NH Rev Stat § 167:44 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 167 - Public Assistance to Blind, Aged, or Disabled Persons, and to Dependent Children|Section 167:44 - to 167:49 Repealed by 1973, 117:2, I, eff. July 7, 1973.

    167:44 to 167:49 Repealed by 1973, 117:2, I, eff. July 7, 1973. –|
NH Rev Stat § 167:50 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 167 - Public Assistance to Blind, Aged, or Disabled Persons, and to Dependent Children|Section 167:50 - to 167:52 Repealed by 1990, 201:19, eff. June 26, 1990.

    167:50 to 167:52 Repealed by 1990, 201:19, eff. June 26, 1990. –|
NH Rev Stat § 167:53 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 167 - Public Assistance to Blind, Aged, or Disabled Persons, and to Dependent Children|Section 167:53 - Notice of Placing.

    167:53 Notice of Placing. –||It shall be the duty of any person, public official, society, or institution, placing any dependent or neglected child in any family home or institution, to give notice in writing to the commissioner within 10 days after such placing, stating the name of such child and the name, residence, or location of the person or institution with whom or in which such child is placed.|||Source. 1917, 104:1. PL 109:11. RL 127:11. RSA 167:53. 1995, 310:183, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 167:54 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 167 - Public Assistance to Blind, Aged, or Disabled Persons, and to Dependent Children|Section 167:54 - to 167:56 Repealed by 1973, 117:2, II, eff. July 7, 1973.

    167:54 to 167:56 Repealed by 1973, 117:2, II, eff. July 7, 1973. –|
NH Rev Stat § 167:57 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 167 - Public Assistance to Blind, Aged, or Disabled Persons, and to Dependent Children|Section 167:57 - Repealed by 1973, 266:3, eff. Aug. 21, 1973.

    167:57 Repealed by 1973, 266:3, eff. Aug. 21, 1973. –|
NH Rev Stat § 167:58 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 167 - Public Assistance to Blind, Aged, or Disabled Persons, and to Dependent Children|Section 167:58 - Definitions.

    167:58 Definitions. –||In this subdivision:||I. "Abuse" means provider practices that are inconsistent with sound fiscal, business, or medical practices, and result in an unnecessary cost to the medicaid program, or in reimbursement for services that are above those actually rendered, that are not medically necessary, or that fail to meet professionally recognized standards for health care.||I-a. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the department of health and human services.||II. "Data" means information of any kind in any form, including computer software as defined in RSA 638:16, VI.||III. "Department" means the department of health and human services.||IV. "Fraud" means an intentional deception or misrepresentation made by a person with the knowledge that the deception could result in some unauthorized benefit to himself or some other person. It includes any act that constitutes fraud under New Hampshire criminal code, RSA title LXII.||V. "Provider" means any individual, partnership, corporation or entity furnishing services under a written contract with the department.||VI. "Suspension" means the removal of a provider from participation in the medicaid program for not less than 60 days nor more than 6 months.||VII. "Termination" means the removal of a provider from participation in the medicaid program for an indefinite period of time.|||Source. 1981, 189:2. 1983, 291:1. 1990, 260:1. 1995, 310:121, 175, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 167:59 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 167 - Public Assistance to Blind, Aged, or Disabled Persons, and to Dependent Children|Section 167:59 - Duties of the Commissioner.

    167:59 Duties of the Commissioner. –||The commissioner shall:||I. Provide medical assistance to all individuals who are eligible for the medicaid program, pursuant to RSA 161 and RSA 167.||II. Cooperate with the attorney general in the investigation of all identified instances of possible fraud or abuse in the medicaid program.||III. Refer to the attorney general for prosecution all cases where there is substantial potential for fraud and abuse in the medicaid program.||IV. Suspend or terminate from participation in the medicaid program any provider who is convicted of fraud or abuse in the medicaid program or any provider who violates rules adopted by the commissioner relative to medicaid.|||Source. 1981, 189:2. 1987, 207:3. 1995, 310:183, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 167:60 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 167 - Public Assistance to Blind, Aged, or Disabled Persons, and to Dependent Children|Section 167:60 - Suspension or Termination of a Medicaid Provider.

    167:60 Suspension or Termination of a Medicaid Provider. –||The commissioner shall suspend or terminate any provider from the medicaid program:||I. Who has been found guilty of violating RSA 167:17-b or 167:61-a; or||II. Who, after notice of overpayment and identification of claims resulting in the overpayment, does not reimburse the department by the amount of overpayment.|||Source. 1981, 189:2. 1990, 260:2. 1995, 310:175, 183, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|